Chapter 643: Mercenary Combat
With a satisfied mentality, Tang Chendong returned to China and prepared for the New Year.
For this year, the difference is that a new member has been added to the family.
Tang Zhixian, this little guy, now looks like a tiger, and he is very cute. No matter which aspect you look at, they have inherited all the advantages of Tang Chendong and Qin Xiaorou in a concentrated manner.
The New Year is also of great significance to Tang Chendong.
As the most important festival in the tradition, every Chinese person will celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm.
As Sanli City, which is very homologous to the Chinese culture, it is also the traditional Spring Festival. But this Spring Festival, they are bound to spend it in the flames of war.
Although Tang Chendong was not in Sanli City, he asked Zhou Bing to let people report to him every day on the progress of the battle.
After all, it was the head of a city hall, Tang Chendong didn't want to control Zhou Bing too much, it was a little bit of face for him, but he knew that when necessary, he had to control Zhou Bing completely.
In Sanli City, the place where he can exert influence is gradually becoming smaller because of his deliberate fading, but he must have the ability to control Sanli City when necessary.
In the early days, the war was quite favorable to Sanli City.
It may also be that the Burmese authorities did not send a large-scale air force out of political needs, but only allowed a demoralized warlord army that was not the main force of the Burmese army to participate in the war, and the result can be imagined.
But later, the Burmese State looked at the self-defense army of Sanli City on this side, and became a little unsettled. So began to invest in air strikes on a large scale.
For air defense, Sanli City is basically equivalent to none.
Fortunately, more than 2,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 100,000 people make Sanli City very deep. Some prominent targets are also in places where enemy air strikes are not possible.
For example, the city hall of Sanli City can actually change the place of work at any time.
It is also home to the strongest concrete castle, and at the beginning of the war, the town hall staff can enter the bunker at any time to work. This kept the city hall of Sanli City from being paralyzed throughout the war.
But at present, Tang Chendong's financial resources are limited, and the time is not enough. It was not possible to organize large-scale air resistance. Not even ground-to-air artillery positions.
How to achieve air supremacy.
There is no air supremacy. In fact, even if you don't lose this battle, it's basically impossible to win.
For example, Myanmar spent so many manpower, material and military resources to attack the single gang, and the result was also the end of signing an armistice agreement. Isn't this the same as before the station?
Of course, Tang Chendong didn't want Sanli City to end up like this.
His aim was to get the Burmese government to recognize the special status of Sam Li.
So. It is important that the Burmese authorities feel a pain from the bottom of their hearts.
In fact. As a poor and backward country. Myanmar's air force is actually very weak.
Tang Chendong thought that even if he did it alone, it would be enough for the Burmese Air Force to destroy Miè, but he promised that No. 1 could not do this. There is no need to do that.
But what can be done to make Myanmar feel painful and achieve its ultimate goal?
Just when Tang Chendong hesitated. News came from the city of Sanli that following the Burmese air raids, the regular ground forces of Burma began to advance, vowing to regain control of the entire city of Sanli.
And with the large-scale army advancing, the 2,000 people in the Sanli City Self-Defense Military Region are already panicking.
As the Sanli City City Hall, which has been officially sworn in and officially performed its duties, it is impossible for it to go underground to work, so it must insist on working in Sanli City, and it cannot be retreated or announced that the City Hall is dissolved.
Moreover, it is even more impossible to learn from the practices of Zheng Changhui and other bandits and warlords who have lost their conscience and violated crimes when they were maintaining their power.
Although this is a constraint, it is also a legitimate government that must do and pay.
Only in this way can the people be convinced that the town hall is really thinking about them, and not a warlord leader who once again wears the cloak of legitimacy.
Seeing tens of thousands of troops advancing step by step, slowly forcing into Sanli City, this gave Tang Chendong quite a headache.
Problems such as insufficient soldiers, poor logistics, etc., were gradually exposed, and Zhou Bing, as a former warlord leader, had some improper command in the war, which further shrank the front of Sanli City.
Tang Chendong knew that if he didn't come out again, the newly established Sanli City would be destroyed.
Even for the sake of his own face, Tang Chendong couldn't allow this to happen.
Therefore, on the one hand, Tang Chendong asked Zhou Bing to self-examine and resist to the death, and on the other hand, he increased propaganda efforts, so that all the people of Sanli City took action and fought for a happy life surrounded by him.
The most important thing is that Tang Chendong asked Zhou Bing to immediately start recruiting a group of reserves.
Tang Chendong immediately went to the world to find a mercenary company and let these mercenaries fight for Sanli City.
These mercenaries are a master of one against a hundred.
And find some mercenaries with rich war experience to train those reserves and the Sanli City Self-Defense Force in the shortest possible time, so that they can become an invincible ironclad lion.
The ultimate goal of this qiē is to deal a heavy blow to the state so that it will recognize the demands made by Sam Li at the future negotiating table.
Autonomy, Special Administrative Region. Peaceful development.
Tang Chendong called Duke.
Duke is indeed a qualified arms dealer, and he knows some of the most important mercenary groups in the world.
Among them is the Iron Sword Mercenary Regiment, which is made up of Israeli veterans, and is known for its combat bravery and the production of military professors. And what Tang Chendong needs is such a team.
Because he didn't want to intervene, and Tang Chendong didn't want the army to cross the control line in Sanli City too far to fight, so the only way to punish the Burmese was to let them enter as many as they died.
Judging from the current situation of the two sides, the necessity of the mercenary group has become more prominent.
Duke introduced the mercenary group as known for its discipline and loyalty to its employers, and such a mercenary was what he needed.
Therefore, Tang Chendong quickly contacted the boss of this mercenary group, Harrison.
Mercenaries don't fight for anything else but money.
Tang Chendong quickly signed a three-month contract with the Iron Sword Mercenary Group.
The Iron Sword Mercenary Regiment provides ninety combat soldiers and ten training instructors to fight for Sanli City. Tang Chendong paid 20 million meters for this, and if any mercenaries died or were injured on the battlefield, Tang Chendong would also pay an additional pension ranging from 1 million to 500,000 yuan.
Of course, the Iron Sword Mercenary Group didn't ask about the employer's background, and they wouldn't know Tang Chendong's background.
Soon these people entered the city of Sam Li in various ways, took up arms and began to fight the Burmese government army.
And these ten instructors also began to train the newly recruited thousand reservists.
With the participation of only 100 military soul-like figures from developed countries who have experienced the baptism of long-term war, the situation on the side of Sanli City was suddenly alleviated.
The Sanli City Self-Defense Army, which had been reduced due to the protracted war, also began to gain a foothold.
Tang Chendong's hope at this time is that Sanli City can have some heavy artillery.
The enemy will definitely not be so arrogant.
However, there is no condition for improvement for the time being, because the status of Sanli City has not been recognized by any international community, so it is still an illegal team, and the funds are very limited, and it is not something that can be completed in a few minutes to increase investment.
Both sides have advantages and weaknesses for each other.
This doomed the war to not end anytime soon. (To be continued......)