Chapter 61 Ambush

At this moment, the fierce firefight had been going on for nearly three minutes. In those three minutes, seven of Murphy’s warships had been sunk, and three more had lost their combat capabilities, seawater pouring in and beginning to drag them down!

And Murphy’s helicopters were even worse off. Seven had been shot down by Li Tianran’s anti-aircraft guns, and the remaining two had been forced into a dead end by Li Tianran’s helicopters. It looked like they were about to lose their ability to resist!

Many people might think that this war was won too easily, too quickly!

But in modern warfare, the outcome of a battle isn’t like the feudal era, where fighting could drag on for three days and three nights. A single modern Weishi missile is enough to kill hundreds of people, destroy a city wall, or sink a steel warship the size of a small mountain!

And what is the firing rate of Li Tianran’s warships?

Ninety rounds per minute!

What kind of concept is that speed and firepower?

If he were to launch a surprise attack, he could sink an entire enemy fleet in almost half a minute!

Conversely, although the enemy’s firepower was weaker, if Li Tianran didn’t resist, they could wipe out all of Li Tianran’s armed forces in two minutes.

That’s the terrifying thing about modern weapons.

They don’t drag out battles like in ancient times, giving you a lot of opportunities to think about turning defeat into victory!

Three minutes of concentrated firepower, and by the time you react, you and your position, soldiers, and weapons have all been turned into charred remains in a sea of fire!

Victory or defeat is decided in seconds!

Buzz!

With the piercing sound of sirens, Li Tianran’s warships began to move forward. The enemy fleet had been defeated and had no room to fight back!

At this time, the freighter was shivering in the middle of the wreckage of numerous destroyed warships.

Soon, Li Tianran’s fleet surrounded the freighter.

Large numbers of soldiers swam towards the freighter in a sorry state.

And Li Tianran’s helicopters also began to approach the freighter. One after another, adult-level berserkers began to land on the freighter, suppressing the last resisters.

“Should we kill them all?” Lu Chi stood beside Li Tianran, watching the soldiers struggling in the sea to swim towards the freighter, and asked expressionlessly.

“Call out to them, tell them…we’re not here for slaughter. As long as they lay down their weapons, we’ll stop attacking!” Li Tianran said calmly.

Lu Chi didn’t dare to mock Li Tianran for killing at least a thousand Murphy soldiers in the previous three minutes, but now he was going to spare the lives of hundreds of soldiers. He used real-time translation software to shout to the freighter through a loudspeaker.

There were still hundreds of soldiers left on the freighter, but they had long lost the courage to resist. Faced with Li Tianran’s powerful firepower, these soldiers, who were already lacking in resolve, raised their weapons above their heads and knelt on the ground to indicate that they were giving up.

“It’s going much smoother than I expected!” Tang Su blinked her eyes.

…

Three minutes later, the entire freighter was under control.

Li Tianran, Lu Chi, Han Han, and others boarded the deck of the freighter. He ordered the captain of the freighter to be brought to him, inquired about the location of the uranium ore, and then quickly headed to the cargo hold.

Bang!

With the help of several soldiers in protective suits, the heavy cargo hold door was opened, revealing mountains of ore.

“Crystalline uranium ore

Content: 0.7%

…”

Looking at these data-like words, Li Tianran confirmed that he had not come to the wrong place. The uranium ore he had been thinking about was now in front of him.

And this operation was indeed much smoother than expected. There were no dangers or obstacles at all.

He stepped forward, picked up a piece of uranium ore, and then asked, “Where is the enriched uranium?”

The soldiers in charge of the storage warehouse shook their heads blankly when they heard this.

Li Tianran looked at their expressions and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He searched for a long time in the cargo hold and suddenly saw four sealed lead canisters in the corner, marked with nuclear radiation symbols.

He strode over and opened the lead canisters as instructed.

Inside the lead canisters were blocks of gray-brown metallic objects. On the surface, they looked very similar in color and shape to enriched uranium, but the moment Li Tianran saw these things, he felt his head buzz.

“Lead metal!”

The three words representing the name of the object data squeezed into Li Tianran’s eyes. There was no enriched uranium here at all!

They were lead blocks that looked very similar to enriched uranium!

Li Tianran opened all four sealed lead canisters with a gloomy face, but without exception, they were all lead blocks inside!

“Damn it! What the hell is going on?” Li Tianran felt his mentality about to explode. The primary goal of his operation was definitely the enriched uranium, because the electricity and time required to refine these uranium ores were beyond what he could afford in the short term, and the enriched uranium could be used directly, so its preciousness was naturally much higher than these uranium ores!

“Bring that captain here!” Li Tianran said in a deep voice.

Lu Chi also noticed that Li Tianran’s expression was not right. He didn’t say a word and dragged the captain over.

“Where is the enriched uranium?” Li Tianran asked with a gloomy face, “Also, where is the commander of your fleet?”

“Our commander, Major General Kabinff, was on the command ship that was just sunk…” The captain said tremblingly, “As for the enriched uranium…”

“Wait.” Li Tianran suddenly realized that something was wrong. He asked in a deep voice, “Isn’t the commander of your transport team Karabog?”

The captain swallowed and said with a crying face, “Before the fleet set off, our commander was indeed General Karabog, but less than an hour after the fleet set off, before we left our national borders, General Karabog took several guards and the enriched uranium onto a helicopter and parted ways with our main force… I guess they’ve already arrived at Beifengkou!”

Li Tianran’s eyebrows twitched wildly when he heard this!

He opened his mouth to curse.

This Karabog really had a few tricks up his sleeve!

Those who can become the number two figure in a country are indeed not to be trifled with. This person’s political experience may not be very good, but his vigilance to danger is very strong!

He actually let the entire fleet attract attention for him, while he secretly switched to a helicopter with a very small target and took a different route with the enriched uranium!

If there were no accidents on the way, then at most the two transport teams would arrive at different times!

If there were accidents on the way, then the larger fleet would inevitably be the first choice to be attacked, while Karabog and the enriched uranium, which were replaced by helicopters, would not be targeted at all!

Li Tianran stood there thinking for a long time. He was considering whether to continue to risk attacking Beifengkou or just take the uranium ore and leave…

But at this moment, a piercing roar suddenly sounded in the sky.

High above, five pure white bombers crossed the clouds and arrived above Li Tianran’s fleet. At the same time, the machine gun mounts opened, and missiles were scattered down like they were free!

“Boss! Enemy attack! We seem to be ambushed!” Lu Chi ran into the cargo hold with a gloomy face: “There are five Russian White Swan bombers outside. They bypassed our radar system! They are bombing our warships!”

“And…they don’t seem to have excluded this freighter either. They seem to want to bury us all here!”

Hearing Lu Chi’s words, Li Tianran’s eyebrows shot up.

At that moment, a missile landed on the freighter. A deafening explosion rang out. With a burst of earth-shattering shaking, the entire freighter began to burn with raging flames and slowly sink to the bottom of the sea.