After two hours of stewing, the mutton was tender and the broth was delicious. It was poured into a thermos and delivered by helicopter, sprinkled with scallions and cilantro, and Xiaoyouzi and her younger siblings slurped it down with great relish.
Why fight a war when there's good food to eat!
After calming his son and daughter down, Xia Yu returned to BLA's old hideout in Afghanistan.
The dead were all put into body bags, and the survivors were transferred to Kandahar. At this point, the target village only had people and sheep for fire defense.
"Boss, all the spoils are here."
Tigo, the platoon leader of the village protection team responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, came to Xia Yu with the spoils he had found.
In Afghan, greenbacks are the most widely accepted currency, and even on the black market for weapons, only US dollars are accepted. A total of $3.273 million in cash was found in BLA.
Indians are really stingy. They only pay this little for doing such hateful work. You wouldn't even get this much in Afica.
However, American goods in Afica are much more expensive than in Afghanistan, so the ones I managed to buy in Brazil are all high-quality items.
Xia Yu discovered four or five javelins among dozens of AT-4 rounds.
The Americans didn't seem to mind taking rockets with them; various missiles were on the first list of equipment to be evacuated. But the batch of Javelin spears handed over to the government forces...
Yes, these should be part of it.
It's highly likely that BLA bought it back and planned to use it to open tanks for Pakistan's T-80U and Khalid armored forces. The VT-4 hasn't been delivered in batches yet!
Given how dedicated the people of Biluzhi are, it must be said that the money Third Brother spent was truly worthwhile.
They were just unlucky enough to run into concentrated fire defenses, which nipped the threat in the bud.
Tigo crouched down and unzipped a body bag, revealing a face inside that was completely different from that of the Baloch people.
Spike projectiles are lightweight and have a small warhead charge. The anti-aircraft gunners who were shot down only had more shrapnel in their bodies, making them much more intact than those hit by machine gun fire.
"That's right, this guy is an Indian. He's the one who killed the sheep yesterday. We just happened to run into him this time and managed to take down one of their big fish."
Xia Yu said with certainty.
He had watched many videos of street food and high-class cuisine in India. Although they ate mostly mushy food, he could tell the difference between high and low castes at a glance.
"Perhaps these Igla-S missiles were also brought over by the other side on this trip. After all, they only bought more than 5,000 missiles in 2018, and this delivery just happened to be in time."
Xia Yu picked up a SAM-24 launcher that had been damaged by shrapnel.
The most old female deer and hippos were shot down by this thing after the millennium. Even the weasel crew was not spared and was shot down once by a saturation attack.
"Boss, should we cause them trouble?"
One employee asked eagerly.
His words reminded Xia Yu, a heavy online novel reader, of the Padmana Bhaswamy Temple in India, whose underground chambers store gold and jewels, making it a must-visit map for many reborn individuals.
If the system had a rebirth function, he would definitely lead a team to India to pull off a heist.
If you don't bring it, there's really no need to make a special trip; there are plenty of ways to cause trouble for the other party.
"Pack up the captured weapons and equipment and let Mr. Niazi take them back."
Xia Yu spoke up.
Niazi is the intelligence agent for that Barbayang. If India breaks the rules and plays dirty tricks, then the more than 20 major rebel organizations in their territory are not to be trifled with either.
These javelins brought by the US Army to Afghan can only hit Tata's broken pickup trucks, but if the enemy picks them up from the woods, they can destroy T-72Ajeya and T-90S.
In the eyes of a businessman like Xia Yu, using javelins to shoot down tanks is a worthwhile business, while anti-tank missiles are far less cost-effective than those used to shoot down pickup trucks and light armored vehicles.
One of these is worth two short letters, but of course, you can't sell it for the manufacturer's suggested retail price when the stock is nearing its expiration date.
Javelin circulating on the black market for weapons don't cost six figures; you can get one for only forty or fifty thousand.
Of the more than 3 million yuan in cash seized, Xia Yu directly deposited the dividends into the employees' accounts, while he kept all the green paper to buy javelins, buying as many as he could.
They don't use it themselves either. The impact of the black swan event won't last forever. Once the tourism industry fully recovers, it can be served as a hidden menu item for visitors to the Cold War section.
Yes, it's automatically triggered when you purchase a short number package.
Beautiful ladies and handsome gentlemen, take a look at our javelin throws! We can conquer the summit!
The package includes a cinematic VCR, and for just $250,000, you can become the king of special forces among your friends.
Although business hasn't improved yet, Xia Yu is already preparing for a recovery. Even if he couldn't get the javelin from the Americans, he can buy it back on the black market.
He had overlooked this point before, but just before leaving, Blah interfered and made him think about it.
Of course, Xia Yu can also choose to print it; Americans are experimenting with integrating javelins into remote weapon stations.
Compared to slender spikes, javelins definitely offer a larger profit margin.
So his main purpose in purchasing this time was to solve the problem of supply. As for tourists thinking that 250,000 is too expensive, the Cold War branch also offers cheaper pottery.
Whether it's genuine American pottery or Persian imitations.
Xia Yu had already printed hundreds of these older-generation anti-tank missiles, which had extremely high production capacity, so he didn't need to worry about the source like he did with the Javelin.
The problem is that old items don't fetch a good price; at most, they can sell for 80,000 to 90,000 yuan per shot, since even short-numbered ones only cost 150,000 yuan.
With this matter settled, the maintenance team for repairing and maintaining the old Black Hawks, the Javelin recovery team, and the Tube-nosed Bat and Horseshoe Bat crews who need to clear out the remaining laser-guided bombs will remain. Xia Yu and the company will also be leaving.
The project funds for combating BLA were settled in RMB and in kind. After using it once, he found that the airborne anti-aircraft vehicle was quite useful, especially in mountainous deployment scenarios.
However, BLA only has about a thousand members, while the Zhāmali Youth Team is an organization no weaker than the Bokor Holy Land.
They have more than a dozen outposts of varying sizes in the mountains. If Jihuo Defense wants to attack them, one airborne anti-aircraft vehicle is definitely not enough, so Xia Yu bought two more.
As for the transportation issue, Jihuo Defense is only equipped with one Chinook for the time being, but for this mission by Akuthan, Xia Yu received four Sea Knights for free.
The two are very similar in appearance, but the cargo hold of the CH-46 is shorter than that of the CH-47. It cannot carry two Weasel vehicles like the Chinook, but it can carry one Weasel vehicle plus one airborne anti-aircraft vehicle.
If all else fails, it can be hoisted and flown like the M777 howitzer, and it's cooler outside!
Because of the BLA incident, the company's tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were delayed in Afghan for more than a month. They were shipped along with the acquired goods and successfully arrived at Pointe-Noire Port for unloading.
The company's equipment was taken back to Bogo Village by the first batch of returning employees, but Xia Yu had to personally sign for and prepare the various kinds of goods.
The good news is that a lot of the aircraft were dealt with during the Elakot incident, and some of the aircraft flew to Kedar after their wings were assembled. The main aircraft in the Kongluga area are helicopters and ground combat equipment.
For example, two Centurion C-RAM air defense systems, worth a total of $30 million, were disassembled. One was printed as a collector's item, while the other two were prepared for sale at a suitable opportunity. Jihuo Defense doesn't need these; let's give them to those who do!
We also brought in some mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles and Humvees for Xia Yu, which Tata doesn't need and are used to offset maintenance costs.
The former, concentrated fire defense, can be sold to the Keniyah people. Mrap's omnidirectional equivalent penetration protection index is quite poor, after all, its main responsibility is to resist anti-tank mines.
If they were ambushed, the thin layer of armor plating wouldn't even be able to withstand 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets.
It's so bad, anyway, concentrated fire defense won't use it.
Many people have developed a fondness for the new generation of Hummers because of the classic image of the old Hummer in movies and TV shows.
But once they actually sat in the old Hummer, they all remained completely silent.
Without air conditioning, the old chassis was bumpy, and the poor protection wasn't a big deal for ordinary people, but for soldiers, it was like sitting in a thin metal coffin. Even Iron Man would feel the same way.
Many Humvees in Afika and the Middle East are older models from this generation. However, the Humvees of the Armed Forces in Afghanistan are different; all of their Humvees have been upgraded to the M1097R1 standard 13 years later.
All models are equipped with air conditioning, and the comfort level has been greatly improved after the chassis was retuned.
Only such Hummers could be sent to Keidal to pick up passengers. Xia Yu refurbished all 18 HMMWVs, adjusted their odometers, and restored them to their best condition before finally sending them to Mali.
The light armored vehicles used by Jihuo Defense are still the Panhard from the United States and the Tiger from Russia; adding another American brand would make things too complicated.
Their equipment looks somewhat Indian-style, but there are basically only two models in each category. After the T-64B1M was retired, the main battle tanks were the T-80 and Leclerc.
Xia Yu painted both Leopard 2 vehicles with desert paint and sent them to Mali.
Heavy infantry fighting vehicles are a bit of an exception, but the KF-31 and KF-41 were sponsored by Rheinmetall, and they only use the Marder themselves.
There's only one wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the BTR-82S, and the only self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are the Red Jagdpanther and the standard Jagdpanther...
This way, laymen might see a hodgepodge of equipment from various countries, but experts can see the difference. Focused fire defense can adopt a configuration that meets its own needs while maintaining restraint, which is much better than individual PMC companies that can only accept outdated equipment from their own countries.
They use what they have, rather than buying things specifically because they need them.
These systems of equipment may be suitable for the military, but not for private military contractors.
The most typical examples are American equipment. The air force equipment is relatively good, but the army's equipment is really terrible.
Infantry fighting vehicles are no good, and they only sell unoff versions of main battle tanks. The HIMARS, which can be used as a missile, is somewhat interesting, but PMC has no use for it at all!
The M777 large-caliber howitzer can be lifted by a heavy helicopter. Leaving aside the competing models of a certain major power, private military contractors mostly use 105mm and 122mm howitzers.
As for the 152mm and 155mm, most of them are towed versions, and even truck-mounted artillery is rare, let alone self-propelled howitzers.
One of the most important factors in military outsourcing is cost.
Poor countries turn to PMC when they need to upgrade their weapons and equipment, or developed countries have weapons but find it uneconomical to use them.
The reason why Jihuo Defense can use such good equipment is not only because it has a reliable system, but also because it has reached the forefront of the industry and can win a lot of orders.
The rest is basically the industrial chain development model promoted by the boss. It's just that the tourism industry has dealt him a heavy blow in the past two years, otherwise it would be much more profitable than the main military business.
Alas, a grain of sand in this era becomes a mountain on the shoulders of these small business owners worth billions; life is truly difficult.
I'll try to sell more weapons to supplement my income in the future; I have three kids to support!
Arriving at the cave sub-base once again, Xia Yu waved and released the tens of thousands of 152mm shells that Ah Fuhan had printed during his deployment.
I heard that many of Russia's ammunition depots are open-air, which means drones can easily hit them.
Here, with two doors closed, even a nuclear bomb falling wouldn't cause a secondary explosion.
In addition, because one side of the two passages is a canyon, limiting the angle of attack, while the other side is a catapult-launched tunnel opened by the tunnel boring machine, which can be equipped with multiple protective doors, even if 81 ground-penetrating bombs were fired, it would not be effective.
It might only be effective with the legendary nuclear bunker buster, but once it actually starts digging downwards, even the Earth Piercer—B61-12—would run into trouble.
Many people say that even Nascent Soul cultivators in fantasy novels can't withstand the tens of millions of degrees Celsius at the center of a nuclear explosion.
But in addition to flying, they can also go underground.
Having learned a lesson the hard way, one knows that going underground a thousand or eight hundred meters will ensure safety. This is equivalent to the idea that bunkers are the optimal solution in the real world, the deeper the better.
Unfortunately, the military budget of the Russian Federation is not as large as that of the Indian Federation. No matter how skilled Master Shao is, he cannot cook without rice. No matter how much inheritance he has, he cannot stop the speed at which he squanders his wealth.
Although Xia Yu was hoping to make money from the Russians, he didn't really have a high opinion of them.
To put it in perspective, let's not even talk about the US trying to extort money from us. The amount of live ammunition used by the Aerospace Force for precision-guided munitions training each year is only a fraction of that of a certain major power.
If we ever actually have to fight, we'll have to send all the Su-30s, Su-34s, and Su-35s to drop iron bombs.
In Afika, where portable air defense systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, even the Jihuo Defense has retired its F-4K fighters, allowing the Red Falcon to drop precision-guided munitions from outside the defense zone.
The economy and light industry are in such a bad state that even those who understand this are powerless to change it.
Perhaps being a good gas station is the only way out.
Even the most glorious past is the past; only those who laugh last are the winners.
In less than a month, Xia Yu had prepared Kong Lujia's equipment, and the family set off for Mali.
As personnel, equipment, and refugees were evacuated to their home countries or transferred to other bases, the short-term peak in transport capacity occupied by Akumhan returned to normal.
Most of the military transport aircraft and the civilian passenger planes temporarily put into operation by Jihuo Aviation Transportation Company were withdrawn to Kidal.
Those that need maintenance should be maintained, and those that need to be stored should be stored. The winter for the civil aviation industry is not over yet.
Not only are these passenger planes unsellable, but the size of the aircraft graveyard will continue to expand in the future.
Fortunately, with NATO's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Xia Yu has already recouped all the costs of acquiring these passenger planes.
With the remaining profit, he could buy another seven or eight aircraft. He needed to buy a batch while the winter was still cold, to avoid the price increase in two years.
Just as Xia Yu was looking for a suitable target, a phone call disrupted his plans.
The caller ID showed Justin, that Lieutenant General Kenneth.
Yes, a few years have passed in the blink of an eye. He and Monjo were promoted to lieutenant general around the same time, which should also be the last milestone in their military careers.
Without fighting, there is no chance for further advancement; the upper limit is lieutenant general.
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