"Sixty-five million dollars, but with the sale of conventional weapons in bundles. fighter planes, tanks, long-range artillery, helicopters, rocket artillery, etc., ......" When they sat together again to negotiate, Liu Yijiu took the initiative to directly reduce the price from the $68 million he had been insisting on to $65 million.

It turned out that there were no other conditions, and now it is starting to increase.

The total value of 60 two kicks, each 65 million, reached 3.9 billion US dollars, which far exceeded the expectations of the military top brass and the government, and there was also a 400 million US dollars in price negotiations.

Although the other party doesn't care about money, $400 million is not a small amount of money.

Especially when international crude oil is only more than $10 a barrel. $400 million, that's more than 20 million barrels of crude oil to sell!

If possible, perhaps Saudi Arabia will pay directly in crude oil.

"Director Liu, I don't know how much you need to bundle the conventional weapons you want to sell!" Prince Bandar couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard that Liu Yijiu's price was loose.

If it is really according to the two kicks of 70 million dollars, the total value of the more than 40 pieces that their own country needs is not too high. Kseith reached an agreement, and that agreement had to be approved by the king, and if the king did not agree, they would have to negotiate with the Chinese for the price of 45 two kicks.

The Chinese are even likely to raise the price of the second kicker to $100 million a piece.

"Not much, the total contract amount of more than five billion dollars is enough!" Liu Yijiu didn't embarrass the other party, "Before." You are interested in our Dragon Guard tanks, Z-91 helicopters, 336mm Defender rocket launchers and other weapons and equipment, if these contracts can be signed. At the price above the east wind, we can make significant concessions! ”

A set of 336 rocket artillery, excluding the launch command vehicle and other supporting facilities, Liu Yijiu quoted 3 million US dollars.

The equivalent of a 336 rocket with a range of 120 kilometers costs $500,000, which is much cheaper than a Scud missile with a range of only 45 kilometers and just over 100 kilometers.

Although the accuracy is a little worse and it is not possible to achieve the kind of precision guidance of missiles, but for the strategic missile forces that the entire Saudi Arabia is about to form. is indispensable.

A hundred sets, this is what Prince Bandar himself can call the shots.

Instead of talking to China about missiles with a range of tens or hundreds of kilometers, it is really better to have rocket artillery. And the charge of these rocket launchers all exceeded four hundred kilograms.

"Armament, will you ration the sale or will we choose it ourselves?" Prince Bandar's brow furrowed.

He did not expect at all that the Chinese would also put forward conditions in this regard.

If the Chinese rationed them with weapons and equipment, they would not cry to death?

"The choice is yours, of course. Equally. Even if you help your allies with procurement. There is nothing wrong with that. The premise is that you lead the negotiations...... "Liu Yijiu's condition is basically to go for the right to import Iraqi weapons in the hands of Saudi Arabia."

During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq and Iran both purchased a lot of weapons and equipment, Liu Yijiu changed history, exported weapons and equipment to Iran from the beginning, and performed very well, and now to prepare to continue to export to Iraq, it is natural to need a hardcore Iraqi ally like Saudi Arabia to do it.

So. His condition can be said to be the least conditional.

"Director Liu. There should be no problem with this, but we need to go back and ask the king and Prince Sultan for their opinion...... "Although Prince Bandar knows that this is not a harsh condition, and they have a large amount of purchase orders in their hands, they must go back and report this matter to King Fahd and listen to the king's opinion.

Unlike other countries' strategic weapons research and development or procurement programs, Saudi Arabia's plan to purchase two kicks or even mushroom bombs this time was not promoted by the military's top brass, but was personally instructed by King Fahd.

The king is the most powerful person in Saudi Arabia, and he is firm in the idea of buying two kicks and even mushroom bombs, and the people below should be carried out, and it is enough to meet the needs of the king.

The Chinese are definitely going to sell the second kick, and the mushroom bomb also has eyebrows, but the Chinese's offer is a little higher.

"Of course, there is no problem with this, and of course, if you really value this, I hope not to wait too long. China's domestic production plans are all based on national defense needs, to produce such a quantity, it takes a process, once the current international situation is missed, the state of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union is eased, the Argentine crisis is resolved, and the transaction can become a trouble...... "Liu Yijiu did not force the other party to sign a contract now and pay an advance payment.

Prince Bandar and his entourage left China directly through Pakistan's plane, and he did not take his own special plane to China, but always passed through Pakistan.

Fly from Pakistan to China, then return to Pakistan from China, and then to Saudi Arabia.

In the palace, King Fahd, who is not very old, listened carefully to Bandar's report, and Prince Sultan, as the crown prince and the first deputy prime minister of the country, the commander of the Saudi Strategic Air Defense Force, was also sitting on the side.

There was no fourth person in the room.

"The price was a lot less than we expected! Since they have to put forward conditions to reduce the price, why don't they just directly purchase the DF-3 at the price of 70 million US dollars? "The king was a little unhappy with Bandar's decision.

The Chinese actually put conditions on them, and they sold them in bundles.

Prince Sultan did not change his expression at all, but motioned for Prince Bandar to continue.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning the Chinese offered 70 million US dollars, and it is estimated that they all guessed our bottom line. In this regard, I think the Chinese are still very kind. The reason why I feel that we should agree to their bundling conditions is because we can get in China a weapon that can effectively improve our defense deterrence, a rocket artillery with a range of up to 120 kilometers, low price, and great carrying power......"

After seeing the 336 rocket launcher of the Guardian 1, Bandar said that he wanted a hundred sets.

When Sultan heard this, his expression immediately changed.

"Are you sure it's rocket artillery, not missiles?"

"Yes, Commander! I've seen this kind of rocket launcher in their production workshop, and Chinese everything is fine, except that if we want to watch live ammunition, we have to pay for it ourselves...... This time the time was relatively busy, and I didn't expect Chinese such a thing at first, so I didn't see the live-fire effect of this rocket artillery......"

"Then you've seen their cloudburst bombs that aren't mushroom bombs, but can produce mushroom bomb effects? Give our two kickers, capable of equipping such a warhead? "The first ruler of any country has an almost paranoid fanaticism about mushroom bombs.

Only with such a weapon with the world's most powerful power can we straighten our backs when we speak in the international arena.

"Yes, here's the footage I brought back from what I saw at their testing ground. The Chinese did not lie about this, because less than half an hour after the explosion, I followed them to the center of the explosion to watch the effect. "Bandar brought back a video of a test of a heavy cloudburst bomb.

When King Fahd and Prince Sultan heard this, their eyes lit up and they asked Bandar to show them the video they had brought back.

When watching the video, there were only three of them, Prince Bandar served as the narrator, and there was a conversation between Bandar and Liu Yijiu in the video......

"Their rocket launchers with a range of 120 kilometers can also carry such a warhead?" Prince Sultan was breathing rapidly after seeing the mushroom cloud that exploded after the heavy cloud bomb was dropped.

"Yes!" Bandar nodded seriously, "The two explosions in the video are both weighing 2.1 tons, and the focus is different......"

"Compared to this warhead on the Guardian I?" King Fahd also became interested in this conventional mushroom bomb.

"I don't know, they didn't test fire such a small cloudburst bomb. However, in the Sino-Vietnamese War, Chinese fired dozens of 336 rocket artillery shells that had not yet been improved and had a much smaller charge, and an elite Vietnamese division was completely annihilated, which was well known to the Americans and Soviets, and if the other side did not lie, we could get the details of this incident through our intelligence system......

"And the Dragon Guard tank, and other conventional weapons are on top of their bundle contracts?" Seeing Bandar nodding, King Fahd's original anger was gone, they wanted to buy spear missiles with a range of 45 kilometers, but they were rejected by the Americans, and now that they have rocket artillery with a longer range, they will naturally not let it go. "We should have a good talk with Saddam's officials......"

Prince Sultan also nodded, but he was more assertive.

"Your Majesty, perhaps we should import a batch of conventional weapons and equipment from China, their tanks have air defense capabilities, and at the same time can strike at armored targets, and at the same time purchase a batch of their armed transport helicopters, so as to strengthen our national defense construction, even if we have Dongfeng-3 missiles can not deter the enemy, we can have more powerful combat effectiveness. Chinese's weapons are more advanced than we imagined, Dongfeng-3 as a long-range threat, 336 rocket artillery can be directly used as medium and short-range fire support, and the three-dimensional defense network composed of Longwei and helicopters can ensure national defense security at close range......"

"In other words, to build a ...... of our three-dimensional defense network with China's weapons and equipment" (to be continued. )