The six pieces of information requested by Chen Nian were quickly passed to his superiors, and after analysis by the intelligence department, a series of known information was quickly passed back to Chen Nian.
At this point in time, he no longer has the concept of "confidentiality level", and the only restriction on him is "prohibition of large-scale diffusion."
This also means that if Chen Nian deems it necessary, he can organize a small-scale discussion after a briefing.
However, Chen Nian did not abuse this power.
He just read all the reports alone and confirmed his suspicions.
The other party is indeed planning to take action.
Although most of the information has not been confirmed, several major arms companies have made production capacity adjustments and should be preparing for subsequent new orders.
Moreover, the United States has become more active in the South Island, especially within the Democratic Party. In the election in May this year, the woman whom I was familiar with and even hated with my teeth did not succeed in taking office.
Instead, there is a more radical and shameless figure.
Gu Kuanmin.
This descendant of a traitor, this old immortal who clamored to put Ma Yingnai in jail, once again reached the pinnacle of power after his own life entered the countdown.
After winning the position of party leader, his next goal is obvious.
As for who is supporting him behind the scenes, who is giving him the resources he needs, and why he is putting so much effort into helping such a dim and decadent old man to become the leader, it is not clear.
In addition, Chen Nian also received a piece of information that he was not included in the list, but was listed as a key concern by the intelligence department.
That is, the duty hours of the big snakehead fish in Eagle Sauce have been significantly extended, and their activity range has gradually extended from the southern Pacific to the Bering Strait in the north.
On the surface, this is a sign of weakness.
But considering what they have to do, such a transfer makes sense.
What they really want to do is probably to occupy the most advantageous deterrence position.
From this perspective, it seems that what they did was more than Chen Nian expected.
Moreover, in their judgment of the situation, they are also more extreme - or from their perspective, they are more comprehensive.
It's not easy to deal with.
Chen Nian let out a long sigh and handed the intelligence document back to the waiting staff.
After completing the re-destruction, the staff left his office, and Chen Nian sat alone behind his desk and began to sort out the omissions in his previous series of technological development plans.
On the whole, due to my past life experience, the path I set is basically correct.
Several large-scale projects include killer weapons that can form a major deterrent, such as 096, aerospace combat platform, and 001, as well as metallic hydrogen and total nitrogen anion salts that are the foundation of technology.
However, these projects have a major problem, that is, they are not targeted at the situation in the South Island.
Or in other words, if we want to complete full control of the South Island in the shortest time, what kind of equipment do we need?
Aircraft carrier? Fourth generation machine? missile?
No, these are not enough.
If we cannot achieve de facto "absolute control" in a short period of time, then for us, we are actually falling into the hands of the United States.
The reason is simple, they can afford to fight for fuel.
It can even be said that what they most want to fight is to fuel the war.
In the Middle East, they have experienced the pain of being dragged into an oil war, and what they want to do is to drag China into the same quagmire.
We have to enter the quagmire, but we must not sink into it.
How not to fall into it is the core of the South Island problem.
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Some people advocate siege of the island, but this is pure nonsense.
If the United States, NATO, and the Five Eyes Alliance did not exist in the world, then besieging the islands would indeed be feasible, and one could even force the other side to surrender without losing blood.
But the problem is that these forces not only exist, but they are always eyeing us.
They dare to stir up trouble, are they still afraid of doing it themselves?
Therefore, in order to fundamentally solve the problem, we must fundamentally disintegrate all the resistance forces on the small island before the other party can react and on the premise that the South Island cannot organize effective resistance.
Attacking first and encircling later is the right path.
Chen Nian could only think of one purely technical means that could perfectly achieve this goal.
That's the EMP weapon.
But the problem is that the EMP weapon has always been a weapon that exists in the concept of science fiction. In nature, the only way to create an EMP is through an "explosion".
Nuclear explosion.
Since then, this weapon has been trapped in a paradox.
Nuclear bombs have already been used, do you still care about electromagnetic pulse?
In comparison, the second best graphite bomb appears to be more practical.
However, the graphite bomb itself is less destructive and cannot achieve the effect required by Chen Nian.
After repeated thoughts to no avail, Chen Nian even went to a science fiction forum he was familiar with to find inspiration. However, it was obvious that after adding restrictions, netizens were no longer omnipotent.
They can imagine 10,000 science fiction weapons that do not exist in this world, but they cannot find a near-future weapon that can be manufactured and applied in combat in a short period of time.
Therefore, Chen Nian had no choice but to find Chen Guo again and ask Xinghuo for help.
After receiving his call and listening to his description, Chen Guo thought for a moment and answered:
"Theoretically, what you want is simply not possible in the short term."
"According to my knowledge system, the weapons that can achieve your goal are either EMP bombs, large-scale sonic weapons, or purely conceptual weapons that do not even have a technical basis."
"However, we are not completely helpless."
Chen Guo changed the subject and continued:
"The effects that cannot be achieved with a single weapon may not be achieved with a tactical system formed by a variety of equipment and technologies."
"Let the professionals do this."
"Give them some time and they will come up with a satisfactory solution for you."
"At that time, you only need to solve the core equipment problem, and that's it."
Hearing Chen Guo's words, Chen Nian breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, when it comes to technology, he is the unquestionable authority.
But when it comes to military tactics, he is completely incomparable to professional soldiers and commanders.
On the forum that year, he also saw countless so-called quick-win methods, including so-called water pollution, rocket bombing, and drone swarm attacks.
But in fact, none of these tactics are reliable.
Therefore, Chen Nian was also curious, what kind of plan would a truly professional person come up with?
All we can do is wait and see.
While Chen Nian was actively preparing for the coming major changes, the first wave of public opinion offensive from the United States was finally in place.
But what was different from the past was that even the experienced public opinion department and talented players like Li Xiang did not detect the abnormality immediately.
The reason is simple. This wave of public opinion offensive not only does not involve negative content, it can even be said to be quite positive.
One of the most typical posts was forwarded by state media without knowing it.
"On the legal issue of the ownership of the South Island: No matter what method is used to recover the South Island, it is historically just."
Just from the title, you can see the direction of this review article.
Moreover, the main text of the article is all "normal" content that can 100% pass the review of public opinion.
Even though this article contains many extremely radical private opinions, such as "Wu Tong is imperative, if you miss the opportunity, you will become a criminal in history", such as "The South Island must be captured within 6 months, otherwise we will face NATO "Comprehensive attack", such as "This is a major test of national self-confidence, if it fails, it will collapse", etc. However, after reading the article, most people will subconsciously regard the author as a somewhat bellicose and somewhat irrational person. of patriots.
The real problem with this article was discovered after the public opinion department conducted a unified investigation on a group of sensitive personnel and accidentally discovered that this person had a major interest relationship with the trolls who had been blacklisted for a long time.
By this time, he had already sent out more than this article.
He has established his own circle and influence. Even if he wants to deal with him, it can be said that there is no way to do it.
This situation quickly attracted Li Xiang's attention. After a thorough screening, a large "cross-dressing" team was finally exposed.
Only then did he realize that in the past three months, this team had already extended its tentacles to various communication platforms.
Online forums are just one of their strongholds, while some media in the South have been penetrated to the point where they have no pants left.
In the office, Li Xiang pointed to the message on the screen and said to Chen Nian in a dumbfounded voice:
"So, the only person who knows yourself better than yourself is your enemy."
"In an article like this, can you tell that there is something private hidden in it? It is full of emotions and warm feelings, and every word reveals the author's deep love for this land."
"But in fact, this guy was flagged by us as early as 2006 for publishing articles attacking bases in Djibouti."
"This time he reappeared with a new identity and a new account, and his style turned 180 degrees."
"If we hadn't found abnormalities in his bank card transactions, we would have thought he had really lost his way."
Looking at the article displayed by Li Xiang, Chen Nian slightly shook his head helplessly.
Indeed, as Li Xiang said, this article is extremely concealed. Even if I have experienced the era when public opinion attacks and defenses reached their peak more than ten years later, and all kinds of fishing, cross-talk, and small essays were flying all over the place, I would still read it at first glance. There's no problem with it.
There is nothing in it that makes people uncomfortable. On the contrary, after reading it, Chen Nian even felt comfortable all over.
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It is a kind of comfort that one's own emotions are recognized.
If he hadn't already known that the author of the article was a staunch reactionary, Chen Nian would probably have regarded him as a like-minded comrade before he could react.
However, on the other hand, when Chen Nian looked at this article with the perspective of guilt determination, he did find many problems.
"The traces of templates in this article are too strong, and familiar routines can be seen in several places in the wording and logic."
"Moreover, its praise is too blunt. It seems okay at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you will feel embarrassed."
Hearing his words, Li Xiang nodded slightly and replied:
"Indeed it is."
"But the problem is that the group of people this article targets is very clear, and its audience still only accepts this."
"If you go and explain to people who have not received a good education for various reasons what is isolation from the international order, what is strategic decoupling, and what is anti-globalization, will they understand?"
"All they can understand are the simplest expressions."
"'China has 5,000 years of history. It's awesome. Beat him.'" 001 forced the two major aircraft carrier formations of the United States to retreat.
"That's what they want to hear and are willing to hear."
"The contents they concocted are like the 'pick-me-up pills' given to soldiers before the war. They use the simplest and crudest way to stir up people's emotions and gradually implant a signal in their brains: We are invincible. Yes, we must fight it out."
"The damage done by this kind of spiritual weed can even be said to be worse than the color revolution they tried to launch before."
"Because it is highly directional, its purpose is to promote public opinion to kidnap decisions - and part of their purpose has been achieved."
Having said this, Li Xiang paused for a moment, then opened a new web page, pointed to the content above and said to Chen Nian:
"You see, this kind of content is common on forums now."
"Fight, fight quickly, fight quickly."
"As long as anyone refutes it, he will immediately be ridiculed and abused by the collective."
"This top-down trend may soon have an impact on the official agenda."
After hearing his words, Chen Nian frowned and nodded.
He fully understands the meaning of the so-called "spiritual weed" and is also aware of its hidden toxicity.
To be honest, if time were moved forward 15 years and the United States came up with such a strategy in 2023, Chen Nian would definitely be so happy that he could not wait to jump up.
Because by that time, China will really be able to have a collision with the United States, and it must have a collision.
Posting counter-propaganda to stir up emotions?
Wrong, that was the pre-war mobilization you did for me.
I couldn't ask for it more! ——
But the thing is, it's 2008.
No matter how arrogant Chen Nian is, he doesn't think that China at this time can really reject the United States and seize the island without any effort.
Therefore, under such circumstances, advocating immediate war is undoubtedly a dangerous act.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian couldn't help but ask:
"Then what are you going to do? Completely ban this kind of articles? I'm afraid that's inappropriate, right?"
Li Xiang shook his head and replied:
"Certainly one-size-fits-all won't work. We still need to carry out patriotic propaganda, and don't make it look like we have a guilty conscience."
"But how to do it specifically? I haven't thought about it from top to bottom."
When Chen Nian heard this, his heart suddenly moved.
"What if we don't care and let them issue it?"
"What's the meaning?"
Li Xiang asked doubtfully.
Chen Nian paused for a moment, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
He opened his mouth and said:
"I mean, what if we go with the flow and actually take the island despite the pressure?"
(End of chapter)
