Chapter 110: Mine Guards
Whether it is the relationship with the Tajik official, or the dealings with the armed forces in various parts of Tajikistan, the only disadvantage is that the cost is too large, and the forces come to gnaw a bite, and there is a potential danger of being annexed.
When Long Dan arrived in Tajikistan to visit Caicha, Caicha proposed the idea of building up his own armament. After hearing this, Long Dan also agreed very much. It's just that there is no direct communication channel with the Tajik official forces. Tajikistan has a population of less than 2 million, and the government has less than 500 military personnel, and it is not very well equipped. Each chieftaincy also has its own ranks, ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred. Although the country is relatively stable and there are no major wars, small-scale armed fights are inevitable, and they are nothing more than the snatching of some scattered minerals.
Long Dan remembered the Mason family of Britain, a large family with countless companies that produced everything from airplanes to munitions. Moreover, the Mason family's influence in Africa is not trivial, and it should have dealings with the Tajik government. So, Long Dan talked to the old Mason of the Mason family on the phone, told him about the matter, and told him that he was going to establish an armed team to protect the mine. Old Mason agreed without saying a word, and personally took a special plane to Tajikistan to meet Longdan.
Mason came this time, but he made thorough preparations, from weapons suppliers to armed military personnel, all kinds of talents were prepared for Long Dan to be used by Long Dan.
Old Mason took Long Dan to introduce the president of Tajikistan, the president of Tajikistan is called Steven, and he is also a big chief in Tajikistan, because of his strength, and the policies he has implemented are more popular with the people, so he was elected as the president of Tajikistan, of course, the first strength is the main reason.
Steven and the Mason family are also old acquaintances, and his ability to be the president is also related to the secret support of the Mason family. Steven saw that it was introduced by the old Mason of the Mason family, and he investigated that Long Dan's power was not trivial, so he was very polite to Long Dan and received Long Dan and his party ceremoniously. In a very friendly conversation, he naturally agreed to Long Dan's requests. It's just that there is an additional condition, the Tajik official will occupy 10% of the shares of the copper mine that Long Dan wants to mine, but under the mediation of Old Mason, it was reduced to 5%, and Long Dan took out another 2% to Stevin himself. Since then, all three parties have been happy, and the matter of Long Dan's mine protection team has been decided.
Long Dan had already sent Lei Hai back to China and recruited another team. Seeing this, he informed Lei Hai to pull the team recruited from China to Tajikistan. When Lei Hai returned to China, he naturally communicated with Jiang Haiyang, commander of the East China Sea Fleet, and Jiang Haiyang was overjoyed and re-recruited the navy that had been retired over the years, and was willing to go to Tajikistan, South Africa, to be hired by the mine protection team with high salaries. According to Long Dan's idea, Lei Hai asked Jiang Haiyang to send a few commanders who could command the battle, and Jiang Haiyang also agreed to this idea, and transferred two battalion-level cadres who were willing to retire from the army to go through the discharge procedures and transfer one to Long Dan's mine protection team.
One of these two battalion-level cadres is Kuang Yong, who turned out to be a battalion commander, as his name suggests, he is a good commander in war, and he is also a leader in the East China Sea Fleet. On weekdays, I train at the top, and I often don't get enough of it. Lei Hai returned to China to recruit the mine protection team, which is actually a small army, and it is necessary to really use knives and guns in the turbulent Africa. When Kuang Yong learned the true meaning of the mine protection team, he happily agreed. The other is Qi Wen, who turned out to be an instructor, good at doing ideological work, and giving advice is his forte, Kuang Yong himself promised to go to Longdan to be the captain of the mine protection team in Tajikistan, so he strongly persuaded Qi Wen to also retire from the army and go to South Africa with him. Originally, Qi Wen was reluctant to leave the East China Sea Fleet, but after listening to Lei Hai's explanation, he was very yearning.
Kuang Yong and Qi Wen are at best a battalion in the East China Sea Fleet, but in the Tajik mine protection team, Long Dan wants to organize a super mine protection team of nearly 1,000 people, which is actually the strength of an independent regiment and a veritable private army. In addition to obeying Long Dan's direct command, the two of them are secretly the main and deputy commanders. The two of them thought about it for a while, and felt that they could all show their skills, so they entered Long Dan's mine protection team together.
Kuang Yong and Qi Wen took the 200 retired soldiers recruited by Lei Hai, and drove to Tajikistan on the Long's No. 1 oil tanker with Long Dan, and the two began to work as soon as they got off the ship, and Long Dan asked Caicha to recruit more than 700 African aborigines from the local area, and one entered the mine protection team, and an armed force of nearly 1,000 people was officially established.
Besides, the old Mason had already brought in weapons and equipment, from individual weapons to armored vehicles, and the old Mason also brought two armed helicopters, and even the pilots were fully equipped, so Long Dan couldn't cry and laugh, and said to the old Mason: "I set up the mine guard team to scare and scare those armed forces, so that they don't dare to come to harass, and it's not to start a war, what are you doing with two armed helicopters." Old Mason disagreed, and said: "To do things in Africa, you have to have your own real strength, otherwise everyone will bully you, and I am also thinking about you, which is called being prepared." Kuang Yong's idea was different from Long Dan's, the stronger his team was, the more enjoyable he was, so he said: "Mr. Mason, do you have any small missiles there, that kind of ground-to-ground, surface-to-air kind?" ”。 Old Mason saw Kuang Yong asking, and said: "Yes, it's very strict, I want to find a way in a few days, and those with a short range can be obtained", Long Dan saw this and said: "Old Mason, don't be too embarrassed, Kuang Yong is also joking", Lao Mason took it seriously, and said: "Without the master to save my life, there would be no me today, I would have gone to heaven to see Jesus a long time ago, and I should help the master, not to mention that the master also helped our family, I just made some efforts, and others will not talk nonsense." It didn't take long for Lao Mason to really get 20 missiles, although they were small, but the power was not small, and Kuang Yongle couldn't sleep for a few days, and he was addicted.
With the team established and the weapons ready, Kuang Yong and Qi Wen trained according to strict military rules. The veterans brought in China can be said to have regained their former majesty with a little training, that is, the 700 local aborigines recruited are not very good training, Kuang Yong and some people in China can speak English, but Tajik native language is not. Qi Wen selected some English-speaking soldiers from the local indigenous soldiers gathered to act as translators and act as temporary commanders, training hand-in-hand for more than half a month, which gave him the appearance of an army. As soon as Qiē was ready, Long Dan discussed with Kuang Yong and Qi Wen to hold a military exercise and invite dozens of ethnic forces in Tajikistan to visit the exercise.
On the day of the exercise, the Tajik president personally visited him, followed by dozens of chiefs of various sizes, and they were all shocked when they watched the military exercise of the Longdan mine protection team. The individual weapons of the mine protection team were all state-of-the-art equipment, as well as two helicopter gunships, and finally Kwong Yong test-fired two surface-to-surface missiles. When the two missiles exploded accurately at the target in the distance, it completely shocked everyone who came to visit. Everyone understands that this is clearly for various forces in the country to visit the exercise, and secretly to warn everyone that the power of the Long's copper mine is powerful, and no one should fight his idea in the future, and he will come to the mine to make trouble at every turn.
In particular, Tajik President Steven, seeing that Longdan's copper mine protection team was stronger than his own armed forces, he was even more moved and frightened by Longdan's power. Thinking that he actually cooperated with Long Dan, he was also very relieved. At the same time, I was also moved that I had such a powerful partner, and my position as president was indeed more stable, and I was also glad that I had a discerning eye for people, and gave the Mason family a face, and also gave Long Dan a face, and in the end, I would also end up with a great benefit.
At the end of the exercise, Long Dan hosted a banquet for Tajik President Steven, during which Steven put forward a request, that is, he wanted Long Dan's mine protection team to clean up several disobedient armed forces in the country. One is to give Steven a face, and the other is to practice his team in actual combat, which is also a good opportunity.
There are two forces in Tajikistan that ignore official deployments, one is an international mercenary organization, although the number is small, only 100 people, but it is very refined, and the Tajik government has never bought it. The other force is a larger group of chiefs, although they do not act excessively on the surface, but secretly they often cause some trouble for Steven. Steven's move can be described as very shrewd, and he deserves to be the president. According to the Chinese art of war, this move is a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. It was able to eliminate its own hostile forces, and it also weakened Long Dan's strength. If Long Dan doesn't agree, he will show weakness, and if he agrees, he will have to cut off the opponent for himself, not to mention that no matter whether he wins or loses, Steven is unscathed.
Long Dan saw through Steven's trick, so he studied countermeasures with Kuang Yong and Qi Wen, and decided to eliminate the international mercenary organization in Tajikistan first, as long as he was defeated, the other forces would naturally be solved. So Kuang Yong and Qi Wen studied the combat strategy in detail, and only by annihilating all the international mercenaries in Tajikistan can they really deter others.
Kuang Yong mobilized more than half of the team, surrounded the hill occupied by the mercenaries, first bombarded with artillery, and only hit no one else, and then sent people to search the mountain to encircle and suppress, and finally annihilated it all. The team here has not completely withdrawn, and another tribe that has always been not very obedient immediately sent people to reward the mine protection team, which is clearly a letter of surrender. When the news reached Steven's, Steven was speechless for a while, secretly lamenting that the two forces he was afraid of were gone, and at the same time, he was in awe of the existence of the mine protection team, and he no longer had a hostile mind.