Chapter 523 Compromise
Five days after the airstrike, Gaddafi did not show up.
It was not until the evening of the sixth day that Gaddafi, who had recovered from the shock, appeared on Libyan TV for the first time after the airstrike and delivered a tit-for-tat TV speech.
"Superior military power cannot defeat national will and the spirit of readiness to sacrifice. We will fight the US military on a wider battlefield, and this battlefield is the whole world!" Gaddafi roared on the TV screen: "The Bedouin tents are stronger than American skyscrapers. The great Libyan people will never succumb to the tyranny of imperialism!"
The United States wanted to bomb Gaddafi to death and force Libya to surrender through bombing.
But Gaddafi insisted on holding on to the end!
Gaddafi hated the United States even more. His most beloved adopted daughter, his most beloved son and daughter were all killed in the bombing.
This hatred made Gaddafi hate the United States even more.
Coupled with the promise of the Soviet Union, Gaddafi chose to be tough to the end.
Taking a step back means death, and only moving forward is life!
The next morning.
A grand funeral was held in the Hani Cemetery on the outskirts of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. A row of dark wooden coffins were placed in a row on the cemetery. Four of the coffins were very conspicuous and were placed in the middle of all the coffins.
The funeral was solemn and dignified.
The women, all wearing Arab robes from head to toe, stood in a row along the wall, crying. The men took off their shoes and stood in the cemetery with angry eyes.
Some men sat in front of the coffins and recited the Koran!
The funeral ceremony lasted for three hours. A row of fully armed soldiers fired three consecutive volleys into the sky with 78-type rifles to salute the dead.
The Hani Cemetery is a martyrs' cemetery, where national heroes who died in the battle to overthrow the Italian colonial rulers were buried.
In addition to Gaddafi's two sons, a daughter and an adopted daughter, hundreds of heroes entered the hero's cemetery this time. They all died in the US air strikes on Libya, and they were brave fighters.
The Libyan radio station issued a victory broadcast, claiming that during the US air strikes on Libya, the Libyan air defense forces were brave and tenacious, shooting down more than 200 US aircraft, sinking five US warships, and capturing more than 100 US pilots who parachuted.
The US Department of Defense denied that more than 200 aircraft were shot down that day, but they refused to disclose how many aircraft were shot down in the air strikes.
While the US officials were denying it, Libyan TV, Soviet National TV, French TV, and British TV were invited to attend the Libyan war results display.
The wreckage of each plane, and the US logo can still be vaguely seen, all indicate that the American planes were shot down.
There were also soldiers wearing US pilot uniforms. These soldiers had wounds on their bodies, and they were obviously beaten a lot. These captives were dejected.
This image quickly spread throughout the world.
The United States was furious, and the intensity of the air strikes, which had been reduced, suddenly increased again.
This time, the United States sent hundreds of aircraft to attack Libya again.
The scope of this attack was wider, including government agencies, hospitals, and schools.
What humanitarianism, what only military facilities were attacked, these fig leaves were directly torn off, revealing a hideous and terrifying face.
In the ten consecutive days of air strikes, except for the unfortunate shooting down by Libya's portable air defense missiles, the losses of the US military were far less than the previous two times.
This made the US military more determined in its judgment that Libya's air force, navy, and air defense forces were finished, and there were no air defense missiles with long range and high range.
Even based on the density of anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns, the US military also judged that Libya's anti-aircraft artillery shells and anti-aircraft machine gun bullets were basically exhausted.
Now Libya is like a weak and pitiful beautiful girl in front of the United States, wearing gauze in front of a strange uncle.
But just when the US military was about to continue its air strikes on Libya, the Soviet Union's actions forced the US military to stop.
In Europe, the Soviet Union's troops, whether army, navy or air force, were frequently mobilized, and they were ready to take advantage of the US military's loss of many aircraft and warships to attack.
You should know that the Warsaw Pact could deploy 887,000 troops in East Germany and Czechoslovakia at the first time, 957,300 troops in other theaters in Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union had 2.311 million troops.
In the Central European battlefield, the Warsaw Pact was also strong, not inferior to the NATO allies.
The Soviet troops stationed in East Germany included 10 tank divisions and 7 mechanized infantry divisions, a total of 3 tank armies, 2 combined armies, and 1 aviation force, totaling 370,000 people, 7,000 main battle tanks, 2,800 infantry fighting vehicles, 900 combat aircraft, and 300 helicopters.
At this time, the Soviet army was still extremely powerful, and the Soviet Air Force was also very powerful. The total strength of the Air Force was 420,000, organized into 39 divisions and 90 regiments, equipped with 13,000 aircraft of various types, including 5,082 combat aircraft, including 177 long-range bombers, 1,780 fighter-bombers, 460 attack aircraft, 2,130 fighters, 475 reconnaissance aircraft, 60 electronic warfare aircraft, and 620 transport aircraft.
The Soviet Union's Tu-95MS strategic bomber and Tu-23M3 strategic bomber have appeared in the skies over Europe.
The United States' NATO allies screamed one by one, strongly demanding that the US Air Force must be stationed at the original air base and must not be transferred away, and the United States cannot be distracted.
The shadow of 1981 has always shrouded Europe and the whole world.
Especially at this time, several major European TV stations are still broadcasting the edited videos of 1981.
Europe's opposition to the US action against Libya has suddenly increased, and its strength has also increased greatly.
Even Britain has suddenly become opposed.
Because it only takes a week for the Soviet army to drink water on the Atlantic coast and look at the British Isles with a smile.
Britain does not want to see this happen. At that time, Britain will definitely not be able to withstand the pressure of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, the United States can no longer put its strength in Libya unnecessarily.
Libya is just a small country with a population of less than 4 million, which is not as important as Europe.
The United States is very angry and very angry about the Soviet Union's move.
But no matter how angry it is, it has to compromise.
Because the United States cannot bear the consequences of losing Europe. Once it loses Europe, the United States can only retreat back to America, and even South America will be difficult to control, so it can only retreat to the United States.
That is enough to make the United States lose its position as the hegemon of the ocean!
At that time, there is no need to talk about competition anymore, just raise the white flag.
Moreover, not only can the air strikes on Libya no longer be maintained, the United States has to mobilize aircraft from its homeland to Europe to restore its air power in Europe.
Because this time, the United States did lose a large number of aircraft.
At the same time, the United States gritted its teeth and purchased more advanced aircraft to make up for its own losses.
It can be said that the United States suffered heavy losses in two consecutive operations, but the only thing it got was to vent its anger, and vent it well on Libya, and at the same time, it also established its prestige and warned those countries that they should not touch the tiger's butt.
If you touch the tiger's butt, the tiger will get angry and eat people!
