【176】Inner ghost!
As soon as he left the hotel, Wang Peng took a taxi back to the airport almost immediately, because he had just noticed that there was a car rental company outside the airport.
Since he wanted to rush to the Li family's mine as soon as possible, he naturally had to drive there by himself.
If you want to rent a car here, it is not easy, because their procedures are too complicated, and Wang Peng, who has no choice but to use the most brutal way to directly throw money.
In the end, he completed the process of renting a car in a few minutes, and the price was that he paid a deposit of nearly 30 million kyats, which must be converted into nearly 150,000 yuan!
And the second-hand off-road vehicle he rented was only worth 100,000 at most!
This is also something that can't be helped, fortunately, Wang Peng is not short of money now, and his Centurion black gold card is universal, otherwise he may not be able to rent a car.
Wang Peng soon set off. Because the road is not familiar, Wang Peng can only follow the navigation all the way, but it is good to say in the city, once out of the city, Wang Peng's eyes are almost black.
In addition, the rainy season in Myanmar has just passed. Therefore, the mountain road is very difficult to walk, if it weren't for Wang Peng's excellent driving skills, I am afraid that he would have been stuck in a mud pit long ago!
Wang Peng was a little helpless, and finally had to urgently contact Li Guoqiang in China, and asked him to quickly send him a map to the Li family mine.
Go further. He was really worried that his phone would run out of signal.
Sure enough, almost not long after receiving the map from Li Guoqiang, Wang Peng's mobile phone had no signal! It was precisely because of this that they had never been able to contact Li Shuangshuang, otherwise it would not have been so troublesome......
It's all to blame for the people in the Imperial Capital Military Region before, if it weren't for their sudden appearance and interrupted Wang Peng's contact with Li Shuangshuang, Wang Peng might have already contacted them!
And if they had been contacted last night, Li Shuangshuang might not have gone to the mine, and Wang Peng would not have made another trip.
It's a pity that it's only now that I'm talking about this, it's obviously useless, and the top priority at the moment is that Wang Peng has to hurry to the Li family's mine! Strive to bring her and several Huaguo employees back to a safe position before Li Shuangshuang has an accident.
After thinking about it, in fact, Li Shuangshuang's trip may not encounter danger, calculating the time, Li Shuangshuang should have arrived at the mine around the afternoon!
Unless it's the people of the Wa coalition who have been guarding the mine all the time, they shouldn't be so fast!
After all, most of their attention was actually on Li Guoqiang, unless someone told him, how could they know that Li Shuangshuang arrived at the mine in the afternoon?
Thinking about it this way, Wang Peng suddenly felt a lot more at ease, but the speed of the car was not slow at all! On weekdays, it took at least nearly four or more disappearing mountain roads, and Wang Peng was stunned that it only took Wang Peng about two hours to come to the "Hpakant" where the mining area is located!
Although Hpakant is only a small town in Kachin State, it is a thriving place because it is the most concentrated jadeite mining area in Myanmar, producing almost 95% of the jadeite rough every year!
Jadeite is a kind of ornament that Chinese people like very much, so most of the rough stones here are actually shipped to China!
It is precisely because of this that there are actually a large number of Chinese jade merchants coming and going here, and even a large number of rough stone collection bases have been opened.
More than half of the entire Kachin State's finances depend on this support, so Kachin State's attitude towards the Chinese is quite friendly!
However, the Li family's jade mine is not here, but in another town about ten miles away.
As Li Guoqiang said, this is located at the junction of Kachin State and Wa State, which was originally just a three-way zone, and its only role was probably a strategic buffer!
But recently it has been different, because the Li family's mine actually found a very huge jade mine, and the jade rough in it is of excellent quality. There is even a faint posture beyond the "Hpakant" mine!
Once the news leaked, both Kachin and Wa suddenly couldn't sit still and stretched out their hands here!
Among them, Kachin State is slightly better, because strictly speaking, although it is a three-way zone, it nominally belongs to the territory of Kachin State, and Li Guoqiang's mine has also been registered with them, which is completely legal!
So no matter how greedy they were, they just found someone to negotiate with Li Guoqiang, hoping that Li Guoqiang would give up part of the management rights and develop and operate them together!
However, Wa State is different, seeing that Li Guoqiang and the people of Kachin State are about to reach a deal! They actually plan to directly tie up Li Guoqiang and force Li Guoqiang to transfer the right to operate the mine to them.
This is why Li Guoqiang, a serious businessman, was forced to smuggle back to China from Bangkang in the end.
In the final analysis, it is the unstable regime in Myanmar that cannot create a safe and legal business environment for businessmen.
Arrived at Hpakant, the rough map provided by Li Guoqiang actually didn't work, but fortunately, the Li family mine seems to be quite famous in this area of Hpakant. So as soon as Wang Peng inquired a little, someone immediately pointed out the road and direction for him.
Some people even kindly persuaded Wang Peng that it was best not to wade into this troubled water now, because that place is not very peaceful now. Just this afternoon, they saw a group of Kachin fighters hurrying over!
"Oh?"
At first glance, I heard that some Kachin fighters had gone to the mine. Wang Peng breathed a sigh of relief, because according to Li Guoqiang, the Kachin armed people seemed to be quite friendly to them!
So now there are Kachin armed people rushing over, maybe they are going to protect the mine from the Wa armed people. Strike at the mines again!
"Thanks for the reminder, I'll pay attention!"
After hurriedly thanking the other party, Wang Peng immediately started the car again, and after about a quarter of an hour, he finally saw the Li family's mine from a distance.
It's just that he hasn't even been able to enter the mine yet. Wang Peng's face quickly changed again, because just as he was approaching the range of about a hundred meters from the Li family mine, a sudden gunfire couldn't help but instantly break the silence of the night!
Then came the second sound, the third sound. Instantly, there was a lot of gunfire......
"Huh?"
Wang Peng's heart "chuckled", and he hurriedly parked the car on the side of the road, only to find that at the gate of the mine, there were two teams of militants fighting fiercely at this time!
And Wang Peng quickly judged it by the other party's clothing. One of them was the same Wa coalition militants that he and Tian Hu had encountered in Wa State before! The other team was obviously the Kachin militants who had just felt it in the afternoon!
As Wang Peng had guessed before, this group of Kachin armed men is really here to protect the mine, because they are now guarding the gate of the mine!
Unfortunately, it is. They are not superior in numbers and equipment, and it can even be said that they are at an absolute disadvantage, if they don't occupy a geographical advantage, just after the first round of gunfire just now, I am afraid they will be served in a pot!
Rao is so. Their situation is not optimistic, because there are only about a dozen people in total, and there are nearly 30 people in the queue on the other side!
After the first round of strafing, they killed and wounded nearly 10 of the opponent's opponents by virtue of their positional superiority! However, they themselves suffered heavy casualties, and there were only five or six people at most who could continue shooting with guns!
And so on in the afternoon. I'm afraid that if they can't even hold on for five minutes, they will be directly wiped out by the other party.
In addition, Wang Peng also heard a burst of panicked shouts from the mine, which should have been made by Li Shuangshuang and the staff in the mine.
"Your uncle!"
Gritting his teeth fiercely, Wang Peng dared to hesitate at all, and hurriedly ran towards the gate. Because this time it was a normal entry, Wang Peng actually didn't want to use force anymore, but looking at the situation in front of him, even if he didn't want to use force, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to!
And just when Wang Peng rushed to the vicinity of the gate of the mine. The Kachin armed men had indeed held on, and in the blink of an eye, four more people fell under the guns of the Wa armed people!
There are only two Kachin fighters still alive, and one of them was shot in the thigh and was being moved to the house with the help of two brave workers!
As for the fruits, only remains. The Kachin soldier, who was not injured for the time being, also fought and retreated at this time, and soon retreated to the house as well.
At the same time, more than a dozen Wa militants have also rushed into the mine. In an instant, he surrounded a prefabricated house in front of him, and he was shouting something loudly.
There was no need to think about it, Wang Peng also knew that they must be clamoring for the people inside to surrender quickly!
The situation is stronger than people, and judging from the current situation, it seems that it is impossible not to surrender!
So the Kachin fighter was not injured. Soon he raised his hand and walked out, but unfortunately the other party didn't intend to spare him, just the moment the person walked out of the door!
Several gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, instantly knocking the man into a sieve!
Seeing this scene, the people in the house were even more frightened, where did they dare to come out rashly?
But what can be done if you don't come out, except for a group of unarmed workers in the whole house, there is only the injured Kachin fighter just now!
What Wang Peng didn't expect was that at this moment, a gunshot suddenly rang out in the house, and then someone ran out, shouting something in his mouth while raising his hands high.
This time, however, the Wa coalition did not shoot again, but allowed the other party to come out of the house. Then he whispered to the militant leader.
"Bastard!"
Seeing this scene, Wang Peng immediately understood, it turned out that this person was actually a traitor?
Or that he was an undercover agent of the Wa coalition army from the beginning, if Wang Peng didn't guess wrong, the gunshot just now. This man must have killed the wounded Kachin fighter!
"Haha......"
After listening to the whispered exchange of the "traitor", the surrounding Wa militants immediately burst into laughter, and then heard the "traitor" shout directly into the house in Chinese: "Okay! Everyone come out! As long as you listen to me, the Wa coalition will not harm you!"
"Bastard!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Shuangshuang was suddenly angry enough, as if he finally understood that it was this guy who was ventilating the Wa armed forces!
So her figure soon appeared at the door, first glared at the "traitor" fiercely, and then said with anger on her face: "It turned out to be you! Li Hongbing, you bastard, do you know what you are doing?"
"Hey......
As soon as Li Shuangshuang's words fell, the person known as "Li Hongbing" immediately laughed, and then said with a sinister and triumphant smile on his face: "Of course I know what I'm doing?"
"From today on, this Li family mine is mine alone!"
"You're out!"
After speaking, he couldn't help but quickly pointed at Li Shuangshuang again, and then said to the little leader of the Wa armed forces behind him: "It's her! She is Li Guoqiang's only daughter, as long as we control her, don't worry about that old thing refusing to hand over the right to operate the mine!"