Chapter 352: The Severodvinsk Incident

Something has indeed happened at the Severodvinsk Shipyard!

Turning the clock back an hour and a half, at the Russian extreme northern military port, Severodvinsk.

At one o'clock in the morning, Colonel Angipushka shook the snow off his hat and walked into a command post located within a corner of the military camp established by the Russian Navy at the Severodvinsk Naval Base.

Seeing that a Russian Navy Lieutenant General wearing the rank insignia of a Lieutenant General on his shoulders was actually also in the command post, the Colonel hurried a few steps to his side, immediately saluted, and reported respectfully: "Report, everything is normal at Severodvinsk. The night patrol deployment has been arranged, and the radar station has also been instructed to strengthen night vigilance, General Vadronov!"

Lieutenant General Vadronov smiled and nodded at him, "Very good, Colonel. The security of the military port requires you to put in more effort!"

One month is enough to change many things, even including a person's fate.

Lieutenant General Vadronov is undoubtedly one of them!

As the former garrison commander of the Severomorsk Base under the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General at only forty-nine years old this year, it is no exaggeration to say that he is the most eye-catching young star within the Russian Navy. After all, as everyone knows, the Northern Fleet has always been regarded as Russia's most important strategic deterrent force, and since the Soviet Union era, it has shouldered the heavy responsibility of the Polar Bear's sea-based nuclear counterattack.

And Severomorsk is the main base of the Northern Fleet; the fact that Vadronov could be favored and appointed as the base garrison commander before speaks for itself.

If there were no accidents, Vadronov would likely have followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, grinding out a few more years of seniority, and might even have had a chance to compete for the position of Northern Fleet Commander in the future.

That was until a month ago when he suddenly received an appointment from the Ministry of National Defense. As if he had offended some big shot, Vadronov, whose future had originally been limitless, was unexpectedly demoted to serve as the garrison commander in Severodvinsk.

When he received the order of transfer, the Lieutenant General was completely stunned.

After all, although Severomorsk and Severodvinsk both belong to the bases stationed by the Northern Fleet, the former is the main base where the fleet headquarters is located, and while the latter is also important, its status cannot be compared to Severomorsk.

Especially on the second day after the appointment was delivered, Vadronov was picked up by a military aircraft to Severodvinsk. The attitude from above, which seemed to completely disregard the possibility of problems arising during the management handover of the Severomorsk base, instantly gave most of the senior generals of the Northern Fleet, including the Lieutenant General himself, the idea that his future was over.

That was until Vadronov met President Vladimir at the Severodvinsk military port and received his personal audience.

His thick Russian-style beard twitched, but the Lieutenant General's face was exceptionally serious.

He now also knows the importance of Severodvinsk to Russia. Although Vadronov still cannot believe that a group of mechanical life forms calling themselves 'Cybertronians' have come to Earth, since the other party's technology is comprehensively ahead of Russia's and they are willing to cooperate with Russia, then for a pure soldier like him, protecting and monitoring these aliens staying in the Severodvinsk Shipyard is his duty.

In that special shipyard within the military port, which has been specifically building nuclear submarines for this vast empire since the Soviet era, hundreds of robots are now working day and night.

The Lieutenant General has had the honor of accompanying the President, the Defense Minister, and the Navy Commander to inspect the shipyard four times, and he has also witnessed with his own eyes two Yasen Class Attack Nuclear Submarines go from nothing to nearing completion and about to undergo outfitting. One must know that from the start of construction until now, the other party has only spent less than forty short days.

This efficiency is something even a normal person who does not understand military affairs would understand, let alone a Russian Navy general like him.

The Yasen Class is the first type of attack nuclear submarine approved for construction by the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The first vessel, the 855, began construction on December 21, 1993, and is still sitting in Dock No. 6 of the Severodvinsk Shipyard, with construction progress having barely exceeded 87%.

It is evident that Russia, pooling the strength of the entire nation, has failed to put the first Yasen Class attack nuclear submarine into service even after more than a decade; thus, it is no exaggeration to say that Russia attaches great importance to the current Severodvinsk Shipyard.

Seeing Lieutenant General Vadronov nod, Colonel Angipushka finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Today, oh no, it should be tonight, the extreme northern military port is not peaceful.

Just a few hours ago, the Russian Ministry of National Defense suddenly suffered a terrifying cyber intrusion. Although this country possesses one of the world's top cyber warfare systems, facing that scale and degree of violent assault, Russia ultimately had to adopt a physical disconnection method to barely stop the other party's wanton intrusion.

Even so, during the brief intrusion process, Russia still exposed a lot of classified data.

The computer science geniuses in the cyber force, through various complex data analyses, barely managed to crack and analyze some things.

They discovered that the cyber attack that afternoon was aimed directly at the Severodvinsk Naval Base.

Thus, no further explanation was needed; the Russian high command was clearly very clear about what exactly is currently hidden in this extreme northern military port.

An emergency alert order was quickly notified to the Severodvinsk Naval Base through encrypted channels.

This led to the scene tonight where Lieutenant General Vadronov personally sat in the military port command center, sternly ordering all units of the base to be on alert to prevent intrusion or enemy attack.

Unfortunately, although the Russian soldiers within the Severodvinsk Naval Base were on high alert, what they did not know was that almost at the same time Colonel Angipushka arrived at the base command post, on a seemingly unremarkable container cargo ship in the Severodvinsk Port, two excavators, one dump truck, and one medium-sized truck were quietly parked on the deck.

If someone were to walk closer at this time to take a look, it would not be difficult to catch a raised metal logo on the bodies of these vehicles by the dim searchlight of the port.

It was a totem that looked exactly like an evil, charming fox wearing a metal mask!

Decepticon!

"... Warriors of the Decepticon, the order from Master Starscream has arrived... Go, destroy to your heart's content... Destroy everything you can see in this human city..."

After midnight, a domineering, evil communication descended from the high altitude of the northwest by north.

The moment this evil communication was received, the bodies of the four vehicles quietly parked on the cargo ship's deck moved in unison.

Accompanied by a strange friction and operation sound of metal and parts, soon, four ferocious mechanical warriors with scarlet light flashing in their eyes roared toward the sky in unison.

"Decepticons, attack!"

Accompanied by a cold roar radiating a violent desire for destruction, this extreme northern military port of Russia, Severodvinsk...