Chapter Thirty-Seven: Into the Tiger's Den
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Two days later, Batavia arrived in Las Vegas with eleven retinues. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After settling the tribal prince of Sierra Leone, Batavia returned to Pakistan, held a very luxurious wedding for his daughter, bought a family business for his two sons, and sent his younger son to study in the United Kingdom.
There is no shortage of high-quality retired special forces in Pakistan, but not many are willing to leave their homeland.
Over the past few months, Batavia has looked for former comrades-in-arms, former subordinates, and some active-duty soldiers, but only more than 30 people have been recruited, and only 11 meet the criteria proposed by Liu Wei.
Liu Wei's criteria are simple: have practical experience, be willing to work for money, and have professional ethics.
The main reason for recruiting these people was to let them guard their "homeland", and Liu Wei did not think about anything else at that time. In his opinion, even if a mercenary army is formed, it is not a matter of time and a half.
After receiving a call from Liu Wei, Batavia led a team over.
Liu Wei received them at the "Pyramid Palace", set up a very sumptuous "Islamic feast", and opened six double standard rooms for them.
After dinner, Liu Wei led them to the recreation room and gave them $100,000 each.
Although there is a casino below the hotel, the twelve Muslims are very religious and do not go to the casino. To Liu Wei's surprise, nine people, including Batavia, remitted the money, and only three saved it. It seems that the families of these Pakistani soldiers are very poor.
In Pakistan, $100,000 is definitely a lot of money.
To put it mildly, it's enough to buy hundreds of lives.
In Liu Wei's view, $100,000 is not a lot of money.
He didn't expect that his "generous" behavior would make the eleven mercenaries believe Batavia's words, and from then on they would die for him, and there would be no second thoughts.
When the money was distributed, Liu Wei didn't even ask everyone's name in detail!
It doesn't matter, though.
Liu Wei assigned Batavia only one task: to have fun, get acquainted with the city, adjust his condition, and prepare for the upcoming operation.
The reason for not rushing to Mexico immediately was simple: the weapons and equipment were not ready.
These things used to be in charge of Dian Bin, and after coming to the United States, Situ Wenhui was in charge, but now that the two are not in Las Vegas, Liu Wei can only figure out his own way.
Don't look at the United States is the world's largest gun producer and seller, of the world's 650 million guns, more than 300 million in the United States, almost every American has a gun on average, but except for a few states such as Virginia, all states in the United States have extremely strict gun control measures. In Nevada, for example, only adults over the age of 21 with no criminal record have the right to buy and possess firearms.
Another point that cannot be ignored is the ban on the sale of automatic weapons throughout the United States.
The assault rifles in those gun shops are all castrated versions and can only shoot semi-automatically. If you want to buy an automatic rifle, you can only go to the underground black market.
As the largest consumer of guns, the underground gun market in the United States is also the largest in the world.
It's also risky to just go to the black market to buy a gun, after all, the FBI has a lot of eyeliner with the state police, and if you meet an FBI informant, it will be a big trouble.
As a last resort, Liu Wei could only call Situ Wenhui and ask her to find someone to arrange.
In addition to guns, transports had to be prepared.
Entering Mexico and getting to your destination is not a problem, the main thing is how to retreat. If you take hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, retreat is a big problem.
Thankfully, the problem was quickly resolved.
There is a 200-foot yacht on the Longmin River, with a standard displacement of more than 500 tons, and can carry up to 190 tons of cargo. It was Liu Xiuhui who asked Long Minjiang to buy the yacht for $35 million, and then used $15 million to improve the power system, increasing the yacht's top speed to 35 knots, surpassing all the patrol ships of the US Coast Guard, so that he could escape the United States if necessary. The aft deck is emptied for small helicopters. It's just that there is no hangar and it is not possible to carry a helicopter.
It's just that, for so many years, the main value of this yacht has not been utilized, except for the occasional trip to sea.
It's been three days since I got this done.
After getting the weapons and equipment sent by Situ Wenhui's subordinates, Liu Wei gathered his personnel and made arrangements.
For the sake of insurance, Liu Wei asked Zhou Fen to take a few days off from Capua, and took two of Batavia's men to Long Beach Port, drove the yacht to the sea, and was responsible for the retreat.
Batavia and the other nine people were divided into two teams, led by Mobei Wolf and Zhou Yulong.
Liu Wei, Takeuchi Kotone and others formed the third team.
The three groups left Las Vegas separately and headed for the town of Nogalis, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Situ Wenhui has already sent people to the place and arranged for the response personnel on the Mexican side. After entering Mexico, the three teams dispersed and traveled along their respective routes to Tabasco in the north of Chiapas, where they gathered in the state capital of Villahermosa, where they would decide on a tactical plan.
For the sake of safety, all three people were disguised.
Zhou Yulong and six others dressed as investment businessmen, after entering Mexico, they will travel to several major cities, pass through Mexico City, and finally reach their destination.
Mobei Wolf and six others dressed as archaeologists will go to the Inca Empire ruins.
Liu Wei They are the simplest and directly dress up as tourists.
In the evening of the same day, the three teams set off one after another.
By this time, Carlos had returned to Concordia, located in the south of Chiapas and surrounded on three sides by the Angostura reservoir. This is his lair.
Concordia is just a small town with a population of less than 5,000, but the location is very special.
The town is located on the peninsula northwest of the reservoir, and there is only one road leading through the mountains to Tonara, which is surrounded by the reservoir on three sides, making it absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In that year, the Mexican political axe army dispatched an infantry brigade of more than 2,000 men, and it took three days to attack Concordia.
Due to the inaccessibility and the nearby jungled mountainous area, the Mexican political axe army withdrew from Concordia after a month of occupation.
Those cannabis plantations are densely packed around the reservoirs, and the cannabis produced is mainly sent by boat to Concordia.
It is precisely because of its unique geographical advantages and natural environment that it is very suitable for the growth of cannabis, that the Carlos family has become the largest drug lord in Mexico.
It can be said that Carlos is the king here.
Back in his kingdom, Carlos can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
No matter how powerful the gangsters in the United States are, they dare not go to Mexico or Chiapas to spread wild. Not to mention those gangsters, the US special forces rarely provoke Mexican drug lords.
It's just that Carlos hasn't been idle.
The day after he returned to Concordia, he received a call from his lawyer from Reno asking him to repay the $100 million gambling money as soon as possible, or the casino would be forced to auction.
Is Carlos short of money?
Of course, there was no shortage of money, and his grandfather and father were running a hemp farm before he was born. By his time, the Carlos family was already wealthy. After more than 30 years of management, the Carlos family's wealth is definitely among the top 10 in Mexico. Even Carlos couldn't tell how much, because he rarely went to the underground vaults where the money was kept. All he knew was that he received a truckload of cash every month, and that almost half of the income was deposited in an underground vault, except for a small portion of the distribution to marijuana farmers and a small portion of their salaries.
The problem is that none of the money is clean and you can't get your hands on it.
This is not uncommon in Mexico, where drug lords are rampant.
A few years ago, Mexican military police raided the private mansion of Leonardo, the big drug lord in Sonora, and found $200 million in cash in the basement.
The money was all neatly stacked on the floor covered with moisture-proof mats, and some of it had been bitten by rats!
After an in-depth investigation, the Mexican police learned that Leonardo was not only rich, but also spendthrift. For example, he is a diamond-level VIP of the "Ferris wheel" casino in Las Vegas, and in order to facilitate his gambling in Las Vegas, the casino not only prepared a business plane for him, but also gave him a million-dollar Rolls-Royce sedan, kept a presidential suite for his permanent surname, and arranged for a special consultant to handle the gambling money for him.
Before his arrest, Leonardo lost almost ten times as much money in Las Vegas as he did in the basement!
In front of Carlos, who has a strong background, a "nouveau riche" like Leonardo has no comparable surname at all.
Like other big drug lords with family backgrounds, Carlos was well-educated from an early age and did not have the bad habits of a street gangster, such as he rarely gambled and never drank heavily.
Casinos are opened just to launder money, and by the way, gain a foothold in the world's largest drug consumption market.
The money spent for that casino was still a small matter, mainly because of Carlos's hard work.
Not to mention 100 million dollars, even if he takes a billion dollars, Carlos is willing to redeem the casino.
It's a pity that he can't come up with $100 million right now, $100 million to be exact, and he won't get into trouble.
If it is investigated by the U.S. federal agency, even if $100 million is given, the casino will be confiscated by the federal government, and it will eventually have to be forced to auction.
This caused Carlos a bit of a headache, and he could only ask the lawyer to delay as much as possible.
In the following days, Carlos was trying to raise money, or launder it, and didn't bother with anything else.
As for Liu Wei, he hadn't even thought about it.
In his opinion, if Liu Wei rushes to Mexico, let alone Chiapas, as long as he enters Mexico, he will not want to go back.
It wasn't until a few days later that Carlos knew that Liu Wei had indeed come, and that he had arrived in Villahermosa.
When he received the news, Carlos couldn't believe it.
Liu Wei definitely didn't come to travel, even if he brought five girls. Thinking of what happened when he left Reno, Carlos immediately raised his vigilance. The girls under Liu Wei must be very powerful, especially the little girl who almost caught up with him. Carlos did not dare to be careless and immediately organized manpower.
Since Liu Wei took the initiative to come to the door to find death, it is no wonder that he is not surprised.
This is the territory of the Carlos family, and there is no challenge to kill a gambler from afar. Even if Liu Wei is very powerful, he can't deal with five hundred gunmen.
(To be continued)