Chapter 291: It's none of my business, we're also victims
While Gu Biao and his apprentices were talking and laughing at Watston, God's perspective was drawn to the Argentine capital.
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in an industrial area near the port area, in an old office building and warehouse.
A mysterious foreign-owned company, which was founded here just three months ago.
Judging from the license, the company's business scope is foreign trade, as well as supporting logistics, storage and transportation, and it seems that it has some business dealings with Monegasques.
"Team A blocked the back door, Team B spread out and surrounded me, Team C rushed in with me!"
As soon as Major Esmeralda gave the order, a special reconnaissance force consisting of dozens of people silently dispersed and surrounded the target company.
The Major is attached to a rapid reaction security force that reports directly to the president, so the process of giving orders is highly secrecy and sudden, giving little time for the other side to react.
"What are you doing! We are legal importers and exporters!" a yellow man, who looked like a financial accountant, was arrested from the office building by the major's subordinates.
Apparently, he was on duty. However, judging from the glint in his eyes, this guy is definitely not an ordinary accountant, but has been specially trained.
The Major ignored the protest, but gave his men a look and continued to search.
Ten minutes later, the subordinate came to report: "Report sir, in the bottom layer of the warehouse on the left, I found the one, it's too heavy to carry it, you can go and see it yourself." β
Major Esmeralda walked over with a blank face, and then saw a round pillar in the broken crate, which looked familiar.
This thing, one is 800 kilograms, and of course manpower can't carry it.
"And say you're a legitimate foreign trade merchant - these are obviously foreign trade versions of imitation French anti-ship missiles!" the major smirked at the crate.
"We've done legal customs clearances! Your country has also bought this kind of thing! Is there any problem? Don't say that your air force is useless! Isn't it refreshing to shoot!" The yellow man is quite fluent in Spanish, and there is no obstacle to communicating with the Argentine.
The major said coldly and intimidatingly: "Of course, there is no problem with the legal customs declaration for importation, but there are not so many on the customs declaration form at all!
The accountant was not stunned at all: "When I was lucky, I cut it first and then transported more, but I didn't expect you to be so picky about quality, so it was just unsalable." We are just a stopgap measure, we don't want to lose the return cost of running in vain, we want to put it first, wait for the relationship between the decision-makers of the purchaser, and then launder it, can't we?
You don't give me a false explanation, there have never been many such people in your country's arms procurement department! This time, we just haven't had time to buy it off. If we had found a way, these things would have been washed away a long time ago! In our case, at best, it can only be regarded as a mismatch for the goods, and there are discrepancies in the amount, but following S is not a nature at all!"
These words made Major Esmeralda's face blush.
He knew how unspeakable Argentina's army procurement department was.
He could only ignore the protests and said forcefully: "Carry the things away first!
"Hahahaha," however, the man who looked like an accountant laughed wildly, "It's really shallow-eyed, and I don't want my face for 5 pieces here." β
Major Esmeralda's face changed: "What do you mean by this? Do you have anything more?"
The accountant's face was awe-inspiring, and he was not afraid: "I don't know! β
As he spoke, he seemed to smile as he spoke, revealing a metallic, reflective, inlaid back molar.
The major immediately tensed.
Could it be that he is a ruthless man who will grit his teeth and treat death as if he were going home once he is tortured to extract a confession?) (In fact, of course not, this is the major who lives the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.) οΌ
"What do you want?"
"We didn't ask for anything. β
"What if we confiscate the stolen goods and compensate you financially through other secret channels? β
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Alright, wait until I ask the president. β
Everyone is a drama spirit, so why bother each other.
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After a while, the encrypted inside line on Galtieri's desk rang.
He picked up the microphone, and after listening for a while, his expression immediately changed.
"Are you saying that there may be far more than 5 pieces of goods that have been illegally mixed into the country?
Galtieri hated iron for a while.
The Argentine quartermaster department and customs are really unbearable.
But the call still had to be finished.
I just listened to him continue for a while:
"Well, I know. Since there is such a possibility, then follow the secret channel and compensate them without offending anyone. Strive for another 'seizure'. Money is not an issue, you can talk to Minister Barboro. Yes, I'll just say hello to him about money, and don't talk to Barborough about anything else. β
Of course, the president can't personally ask the price, so let the two henchmen compete with each other.
In the end, Minister Barboro transferred the money and then called the president back to inform him of the final price.
"Mr. President...... I have prepared 30 million US dollars, and this batch of stock, there may be a total of 30 pieces. It has exceeded all the current super military flags of our army and is fully loaded with one attack wave. There are only 12 Super Flags left in the Air Force, and one attack wave can hold 24. β
"30 million, 1 million dollars a piece? Is this a robbery? Isn't the French goods only 200,000 dollars a piece?"
Robbery! Sell directly at a price of 5 times?
"But now that it's a state of war blockade, we've tried something else. And we have to pay first, otherwise we can only get the first 5 pieces that have been searched, and the next 25 pieces will definitely be destroyed by the dog jumping over the wall to destroy the evidence. "Minister Barboro, in order to bear less guilt, did not want to remind the president of all the details.
In fact, $200,000 is the original price of the original French shipment.
And this batch of knock-offs, because all indicators are 10% ~ 20% worse than the original French goods, and the comprehensive combat performance can only play about 60% of the Exocet, so the last few samples I bought were only given 80,000 US dollars.
Therefore, in fact, Argentina took $1 million a piece to buy the original price of 80,000 yuan, a 12-fold increase.
How else to say that Argentines are cheap, they hate less when they are played, and they are reluctant to pick and choose when they are peaceful, so they have to be blocked, and they pay 12 times to buy their lives.
These words will not stimulate the president, and the president can misunderstand the original price of 200,000, which is a great joy for everyone.
"$30 million...... Alas. The president sighed, and then turned his anger into hatred for the Bretons.
Galtieri hung up the phone and dialed the Air Force henchmen.
At this point in the war, he understood that the army and navy were all waste! Traitors! Only the air force was the backbone of the country. This matter is only allowed to be known to the personnel involved in the Air Force's operation, so that they can immediately prepare for war, gather all the super military flags, and do not wave, and first use the A-4 Skyhawk attack plane of Spicy Chicken to show weakness and test.
When the Bretanians let their guard down, suddenly give them a good look.
Galtieri still has this brain, and since the Bretanians think that he has finished shooting the flying fish, of course, this asymmetry of intelligence and cognition must be fully utilized.
He suddenly seized a batch of things that surprised even himself, and the Bretanians certainly surprised even more.
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June 13, the day before the start of the World Cup.
The nerves of the Bretanians who had been tense for days were finally completely relaxed.
Because the combat strength of the overstretched task force is finally about to be fully replenished.
Since the 42 destroyers in the fleet were sunk two, the air defense frigate was also sunk two, and several warships were slightly damaged. During this time, the task force relaxed the blockade of Tsushima and hid away from the Argentine coast.
A few days ago, the Type 42 destroyer "Birmingham," which was incorporated into the task force, finally arrived from Australia, and the fleet's air defense network was slightly tighter, so that they dared to re-blockade the Falklands in all directions -- after all, the blockade of the Falklands should not be too loose, and if it was too loose, once the Argentines rushed to repair the airfields on the island, causing their air force to get an advance base, and no longer needed to take off from the mainland, but directly from the Falklands for air attacks, the task force would not have to mix.
So this tactical retreat is very short-lived and cannot be long enough to give the enemy a window to repair airfields.
Today, it is said that the third aircraft carrier from China, the "Excellence", will also arrive under the escort of the newly launched "Southampton", "Eckert" and a bunch of frigates, and join the damaged main fleet.
With these forces, it is inevitable that there will be no mistakes against the Argentines who have exhausted the "Flying Fish".
In another time and space, the "Excellence", as the second aircraft carrier of the Invincible class, will not be officially commissioned until June 20 this year.
Now, because the war situation is more urgent than the same period in history, the aircraft carrier is forced to enter service half a month early, and then make final fine-tuning while sailing, and rush to the South Atlantic.
Early in the morning, on the flagship aircraft carrier "Invincible", the commander of the fleet, Admiral Federhouse, once again woke up early because of insomnia. The cold winter in the South Atlantic is very unaccustomed to all northerners.
"Have the Harrier fighters been rotated on patrol?" he asked the captain as he sipped his coffee.
The captain replied respectfully: "General, the take-off operation is about to beginβwait a little longer, it will be a little brighter, and there will be no need to turn on the deck to guide the lights." The batch of planes in the air had enough fuel. β
In the high latitudes of the South Atlantic, the days are now very short, and in June they do not dawn until 8 a.m. every day. And the Royal Navy has only light aircraft carriers, which can only carry Harrier fighters, and does not have any carrier-based AWACS aircraft.
As a result, the long-range vigilance capability of air defense is very poor, and it is impossible to guard against the enemy's ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming aircraft in advance -- because of the curvature of the earth, no matter how advanced the ground and sea surface radars are, there are blind spots for sea-skimming aircraft and missiles.
In order to completely solve the problem of blind spots, it is necessary to rely on the radar without dead angles of high-altitude early warning aircraft.
In the deaths of the "Sheffield" and "Coventry" last month, electromagnetic compatibility was a problem on the one hand, but the main key was that there were no early warning planes and that enemy planes and missiles could not be detected at an ultra-long distance.
Admiral Federhouse nodded after listening to the captain's statement, he had no choice but to fight on limited conditions.
However, at this moment, he heard the alarm blaring.
"The Glasgow, which is fighting the enemy in front of the enemy, has spotted an enemy ultra-low-altitude attack aircraft!" The detailed alarm immediately reached the commander's desk.
"Are you flying at an ultra-low altitude again and want to rely on traditional aerial bombs to attack and break through?" The corners of the general's mouth showed a disgusted smile.
However, he soon discovers that he has guessed wrong.
After just two minutes of hustle and bustle, he received the latest report on the flagship.
Everything, he was stunned and dumbfounded.
"The Glasgow was hit by Exocet missiles! A total of four salvos were fired, two of them hit, and the whole ship was on fire and has lost its combat effectiveness!"
"The Bristol was saturated with 6 missiles! 5 were intercepted and dodged, 1 hit, and temporarily lost its combat effectiveness!"
"1 Type 22 frigate sunk!"
"There are 6 suspected super-flag attack planes that have broken through the frigate's air defense network and attacked the ship and the 'Hermes'!"