Time was tight, so Dwight-Bled went to report on the situation first, make connections, and attend a preparatory meeting, and Zhang Zhenjin took his 158 brothers to the tent barracks that had been prepared for them in advance.

There is no air conditioning, and the hottest temperature in the afternoon this season is only 30 degrees, and 13 or 4 degrees at night, and the guys in charge of logistics in the African savannah do not have the habit of installing air conditioning in tents by the logistics brothers in the Philippines.

Yes, this is black Africa!

The marching bed and blanket are ready-made, and there is at least electricity, a bed, a water dispenser in the tent, and a field toilet outside.

This is to go to war, not to travel, to be able to leave the hot and humid island of Luzon, which smells of sulfur everywhere, be content!

Zhang Zhenjin put the marching backpack next to the bed, and the second platoon leader, James David, came over from the other end and said to him: "I don't know what equipment to use this time." ”

Zhang Zhenjin sat down on the bed here, felt the comfort of the bed board and said: "Anyway, it's not bad, we don't have to worry about this, the boss won't let us use rags."

However, it is estimated that it will take one day tomorrow to familiarize myself with the newly arrived equipment, so that the brothers will seize the time to rest after eating, and start to be busy tomorrow morning.

By the way, you don't have to eat field food this time, do you have a kitchen?"

The U.S. military's two large sea air bases near Mount Pinatubo are semi-scrapped, and there will be volcanic ash blowing from nearby when a gust of wind blows within the base, and no matter how it is cleaned up, it will have to rely on a large amount of rain to solve the problem, which makes the airfields of the two bases become decorations most of the time.

The C141 took off from Manila International Airport, and in addition to the night vision devices and some basic equipment that the guys carried with them, they each brought a Glock 18, and the spears and explosive equipment were left in the training camp.

"Combined Forces" Rules: All military personnel are equipped with pistols regardless of the service, but there are only three options for free distribution: Glock 17, 18 and T33, and those who are used to using other pistols can prepare them according to their choice, but they must purchase them at their own expense.

These people in the Philippines all chose Glock 18, expensive, and it can be fully automatic at critical moments, it is not easy to buy on the market, and even James David, who was used to using M1911A1, chose the same choice as his brothers.

Hearing the words of the deputy battalion commander, James poured: "I asked, the canteen is 200 meters away, and it will be open for 20 hours in the past two days." Tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m., we will be issued with the Soviet-style equipment for the class, and the NATO standard for precision shooting equipment, and we will only have one day to familiarize ourselves with it.

By the way, there are a lot of the latest high-end goods from the Soviet Union here, but our people have only used Huaxia's individual anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, and this time they have not had time to adapt to the new equipment, so our company will use the missiles that Huaxia bought. ”

The camp had already arrived with Soviet missiles, but the second batch - the first batch was larger, but it was brought together with the five suitcases and 10 nuclear shells.

If this operation is smashed with Soviet-made missiles, Zhang Nan can't imagine that there will be people with a heart to link these two things in the future.

Nowadays, there are not many people who go to dig the Soviet arsenal, at least even if there are goods on the international arms black market, this number is not much, so we have to be careful.

It will take another year and a half before a large amount of equipment can be released, and at that time, the high-end goods and equipment in the Maozi ammunition depot that were originally only for personal use will be sold all over the world: so the first batch of missiles was not distributed on a large scale at all, and most of them were packed in containers and stuffed in the warehouse of the Gambia base.

Fortunately, the Red Navy's Black Sea Fleet "supported" the second batch, and it was in time to catch up, otherwise this trip would basically only rely on missiles purchased from China to support the scene.

After a while, the group of guys from the Philippines arrived at the cafeteria, which is a two-story permanent building, brightly lit - there are planes taking off and landing at any time, and people will arrive or leave here in the middle of the night, many people have traveled halfway around the world in order to hurry, and not all planes provide catering services like international flights of civil aviation.

But even so, the 24-hour opening of this canteen is too extravagant, and when Zhang Zhenjin and the brothers go together, they understand why such good logistical preparations can be made here: there are only a few staff members in the restaurant on the first floor of the huge canteen, and they are all black buddies. When asked, these are canteen helpers hired from the local tribe who will only be in charge of washing dishes and tending to a row of oversized rice cookers!

Several people shook their heads, apparently in the same tradition as the company's headquarters in Virginia: there were still several large pots of braised beef hot next to the rice cooker, and if you wanted to eat them, you would have to get your own rice bowl, and few people would cut the hard bread on the other side, even if there was an oven and microwave to heat it.

After spending some time in the Philippines, I got used to the taste of rice.

Genuine Botswana all-natural, additive-free raised beef, the ingredients are not to be said, this is a high-priced commodity in Europe.

Eat as much as you want, and take a washed cucumber from the big basket on the side, and this is the best meal.

It's in Southern Africa, and it's a hot meal, beef, vegetables, and so on!

After eating, the guy who wanted to take a bath ran more than 500 meters to find the bathroom, only cold water, this is not a hotel, it will be.

The guys who don't pay attention to it are just washing and scrubbing in the outdoor washing area temporarily prepared in the tent area, and they are basically helping the big guys, and no one cares.

There are female military contractors, not many, and there are more female men than others, and they don't care about these at all.

As soon as Dwight Breed, who had finished the meeting, returned to the barracks, he said one thing: the equipment would be distributed tomorrow morning.

......

The next morning, the guys received the equipment they needed: all of them were dressed in semi-arid camouflage combat uniforms, which were originally worn in jungle camouflage, which was not suitable here.

According to the size they quoted, there are shirts, coats, boots, socks inside and out, and if it's too hot, it's your business to wear only shirts, because like their boss's bodyguards, even body armor that basically no one wants to wear in the Philippines is issued.

The Philippines is too hot and humid, and it is a fool to train in body armor!

Level 3 body armor, plus two inserts that can be strengthened to the level of level 4 bulletproof, can block a few high-powered ordinary bullets fired by M14 automatic rifles at close range, and even armor-piercing bullets are estimated to be able to resist a little farther away, let alone M43 intermediate power rifle bullets.

But the weight is still a little, whether to plug the bulletproof plate, whether to wear it or not, each person takes it back according to their actual situation.

There are several offensive and defensive grenades to choose from, even a few stunners, and horror guys like the Soviet MON50 directional anti-infantry mine.

Communication equipment and night vision equipment are not available, they have long been brought with them.

The Red Arrow 8 and Red Strike 5 missiles are enough, as long as you can take them with you.

I was a little envious of those friendly troops who were accustomed to using the new Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles, because Zhang Zhenjin saw that even the tribal armed forces here had taken away some of the SAM-18 anti-aircraft missiles that were said to be the latest type, and he was a little red-eyed!

That thing can not only chase the plane, but also attack head-on, at least one generation ahead of the Hongying 5 in his hand: no way, I have not been trained in the use of Soviet-made missiles, even if I learn to use it today, this hit rate is not as good as the person who has been trained in the system and trained with live ammunition.

It's been too long in the Philippines to train missiles, let alone Soviet goods.

The basic class equipment is AKM and RPK, the general-purpose machine gun is the M240, a large number of M72 disposable bazooka is a must, and the AT4 can also be freely selected.

However, in view of the fact that it is unlikely that the "UNITA" will be equipped with a large number of tanks, Zhang Zhenjin and others only chose the lightest M72 in order to bring more.

There is also a sniper in each squad, and according to personal habits, the M21 and M24 rifles are optional, and all Soviet-style rifle ammunition is all Yugoslav products imported in large quantities in the previous two years, which is a first-class product.

As for the ammunition for American-style firearms, it is a brand-name product produced by several major ammunition manufacturers in the United States, and the quality is guaranteed, and the sniper rifles are all high-priced and high-precision bullets.

There are also automatic grenade launchers, which can be used as rapid-fire guns for infantry squads; Not only that, but some AK47s also incorporate Soviet-made front-mounted grab-mount grenade launchers, which are optional.

The fire platoon also received several 60-mm mortars, PP89 imported from China - this is not new, and the fire platoon is familiar with it.

But the bazookas assigned to them are interesting: there are two, one is the famous traditional "thrift" RPG-7, which is a favorite in Africa, but in addition to the common armor-piercing and anti-personnel explosive shells, there is also a kind of warhead that looks round.

A guy who knew a little bit of Russian studied it carefully and asked the guy who issued the equipment: "Hey, I said, what do we want Molotov cocktails?"

As a result, the buddies on the other side told them: Do you still believe Maozi's words?

Aircraft carriers are called heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers!

“... When you go to try, bring more, the same trajectory as anti-personnel blasting shells, don't be scared, these rockets are so powerful that they explode!

By the way, I said you guys!"

The person who issued it was Brad, Zhang Zhenjin and others, and after pointing it, he said: "There is also a kind of disposable bazooka that the company got from the East German Soviet Army at a high price, and this RPG is a new type of warhead, that is, the charge is more, I advise you to bring some more, it is easy to use against the people in the building until it explodes, and it is absolutely a conscienceless cannon!"

This buddy from Huaxia knows the same thing as "no conscience cannon".

When Zhang Zhenjin heard this, he asked, "Cloud burst bomb?"

"Yes, the Shmir-2 cloudburst bomb, those RPG-7 new warheads are also cloudburst bombs, so take it easy when you test it. ”

Speaking and giving the manual: translated, Chinese and English, the original Russian version is also there.

This time, Brand's small unit will take a C130 to attack, not an all-infantry, and also prepare some FAV three-person light assault vehicles, which are only used by the seals in the U.S. military.

There are also quite a few 7-seater open-top jeeps, and the rest are infantry: long-distance running, it is unrealistic to be fully motorized infantry, and the actual situation in the target area also requires a lot of pure infantry who walk on two legs.

With such a level of equipment, the elite of the U.S. military is at most a tie, who made this boss too rich, this time it is still a long-term action, and he didn't think about the cost at all!

When the equipment is ready, get in the car and go: this is in the camp, you don't have to go far without the infantry, there are still big trucks.

The shooting range is relatively far, seven or eight kilometers away, and many guys are coming to Africa for the first time, and they are watching strange things halfway.

Zhang Zhenjin once came here, saw the situation on the road, and said to Brad, who was sitting on the side: "Kung Fu has changed a lot here in a few years, originally this is all a savanna along the river beach, and there are several factories here..."

A few years ago, the traditional gathering area of the Tswa people around the mining area was still very backward, although the tribal members were not poor by relying on the traditional cattle farming, but it was a bit similar to the situation faced by the herders in the Tibetan areas of China ten years ago: cattle are wealth, and the state will buy them every year, and there is money in your pocket, but you have money and nowhere to spend it!

The infrastructure is too weak, and the industry is basically duck eggs, since Zhang Nan started to operate the tribal area as his own territory, he used an old Chinese method to improve the situation here: the famous "five small industries"!

You don't have nothing, then we'll build it from scratch and give you all at once.

In the 1970 Fourth Five-Year Plan for China, the central government required all provinces and autonomous regions to develop small coal mines, small iron and steel plants, small chemical fertilizer plants, small cement factories, and small machinery factories, and decided that the central government should allocate 8 billion yuan of special funds for the development of five small local industries.

After the 21st century, many of these five small industries are called five small enterprises, a word difference, but this meaning is very different, the latter is a waste of resources, backward technology, poor quality, serious pollution, a large number of small coal mines, small oil refining, small cement, small glass, small thermal power...

It's all click!

However, in the seventies and eighties, it was obvious that the five small enterprises were able to make better use of local resources, enhance local economic strength, and improve the economic outlook of the county: from a single agricultural economy to agricultural production, taking into account industry, and moderately raising the level of non-agricultural income.

For example, in Zhang Nan's hometown, there is no coal or oil, and of course the coal mine and oil refinery were not built.

However, it has built urgently needed cement plants, fertilizer plants, and thermal power plants, and has also built a number of light industries, such as cotton spinning mills and silk weaving mills, in accordance with the characteristics of its own regional production.

It's just that with the transformation of the planned economy to a market economy, after more than 20 years, there is only one thermal power plant left to flourish, and the other five small industries that were launched at the beginning do not need to engage in environmental management and elimination, and they have long been abandoned by the market, and even those factory plots near the urban areas have basically been sold and developed into real estate projects.

Now for the Tswa people, such five small industries are urgently needed: in the past few years, there was a lack of electricity and no one wanted refrigerators, and there were not enough coal resources on the site, even if there was a shortage of water, the small amount of water resources needed for thermal power generation could still be solved.

Don't think about the cotton mill, there is no cotton at all for hundreds of kilometers around here, and the idea of importing cotton from landlocked countries for textile is the second goods, but the garment factory still has to build one: it is not an exaggeration, there will not even be a decent garment factory in the whole Botswana!

In fact, Botswana is not the only one that cannot find a decent garment factory in the whole country in the southern and western African regions.

It's quite rich here, like in West Africa, until the 21st century, many countries still can't get a big garment factory!

In the northern part of the tribal area, there is also a large amount of raw materials for the production of fertilizer, and this fertilizer factory has also been built.

Botswana people love to raise cattle, but agriculture is still there, and now the fertilizer plant is the only fertilizer plant in the entire northern part of Botswana, and the products are not only supplied to Botswana domestically, but also exported to neighboring countries.

The cement factory is also needed, the tribal territory is large enough, and there is no need to worry about environmental pollution; Even a waterworks were built to supply the mine and several nearby tribal settlements.

Recently, plans are underway to build a chemical plant, which is a variety of mining explosives, right next to a fertilizer plant.

Similar raw materials, some chemical fertilizers can be used to make explosives, and it is really explosives and fertilizers that are not separated.

Originally, I wanted to get a deep processing base for cattle, but considering that the high-quality beef cattle exported here are all live cattle transportation, and the pollution of tanning is too large, this idea was temporarily dispelled.

All the enterprises Zhang Nan's company has shares, but the tribe also holds shares, and they get more benefits. In addition, Zhang Nan also paid for the construction of many hospitals and basic education schools, he did not return to his tribal territory much, but in the eyes of the Tswa people, this yellow-skinned chief was already the first chief of the tribe, and his prestige was second only to the king of Moshari at most.

Everyone understands that Chief Allen will not think about occupying the chair of the Earth King, so in the eyes of all the Tswa people: Chief Allen is a very good person, and he has nothing to say about his own people!

As for what Mr. President thinks...

Whatever, there are not many ways to do it anyway, and many things have to be listened to by the soil king.