Chapter Forty-Six: The Storm Suddenly Changes

Although he was put on a table by the hateful profiteer Manager Zhao, the two sides did not tear their faces and lost the North Korean supply, Liu Handong could only choose to buy from Yongchang Industry and Trade, and still poured the so-called scrapped munitions, rifles, machine guns, bullets, grenades and other consumables from the Pakistan Army warehouse, although the unit price was low, but the quantity was large, and the total price was not low.

In order to transport these weapons and ammunition, Liu Handong bought an Il-76 transport plane that he didn't know how many hands he had, and hired two Ukrainian pilots, who were busy all day long, transporting arms from Pakistan to Iraq.

The backbone of the guerrillas is a group of retired US special forces hired by Barnes, and the price of these mercenaries is quite high, in terms of hourly pay, it costs $100,000 a month for a combatant, Chechen and Afghan soldiers who serve as miscellaneous soldiers can get $100,000 or 20,000, while a man like Zhu Xiaoqiang only has a meagre $2,000 or 3,000.

When the weapons were delivered this time, Barnes was also there, and he told Liu Handong with a sad face, the mercenary who was beaten by you last time was the leader of that group, and now he is not doing it, and he will kill you, you have to help me settle the trouble.

Liu Handong said okay, but the price should be fair, they are all desperate, why are the wages of European and American whites so high.

Barnes said that people are from the Rangers, the Navy SEALs, and the Delta, and you can just pull a former Iraqi government army over, can the grade be the same?

Liu Handong said, what about the former North Korean special forces officer?

Barnes said that such people can only bid 1,000, and that fighting a war is not something that can be done by physical fitness and marksmanship, what age is it, can the North Korean special forces guide drones, can they use satellite phones and GPS, can they fly helicopters and armored vehicles?

After some bargaining, Barnes changed his way and contracted the guerrilla work to Liu Handong at a total contract price of 20 million US dollars.

Liu Handong took a big order, began to recruit troops, did not bother the two masters, he still found Zhao Hui, let him help him contact cheap and easy to use mercenaries, the task is to overthrow the current regime of Colin, offer 15 million US dollars, paid monthly, and a generous pension for the dead, and ask to recruit 200 experienced soldiers, regardless of nationality, age, race, but it is best to be Muslim.

Manager Zhao Lu Ziye quickly found more than 200 people, most of them are experienced soldiers, including Sri Lankan former marines who have fought against the LTTE, Pakistani veterans who have fought in Kashmir for many years, armed personnel from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and of course Chinese mercenaries.

After some contact, Liu Handong found that although Zhao Hui was treacherous, but business was business, and he was still full of arrogance in private, he once suspected that this person was a Chinese intelligence agent, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't feel that the Said's regime was supported by China, how could they fight each other.

It wasn't until a few months later that Liu Handong understood how shameless and spicy the methods of the great powers were, and they did a lot of things like fighting left and right.

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Hundreds of South Asian workers staged a sit-in in front of the Zhongyan Yellow Petroleum Refinery in Colin to protest the company's layoffs.

It is said that these South Asian workers can still work, and the salary level is not high, far more cost-effective than transporting people from China, but the idea of the leadership is unfathomable, perhaps to solve the pressure of domestic employment, or to expand the scale, in short, overnight, South Asian workers have been fired.

The laborers are organized, and their big boss behind the scenes, Ali. Dr. Khan was also quite dissatisfied, because he had to take a cut of the wages of the workers, and now he lost a large part of his business income, so he could not be angry, so the demonstrations began.

At first, it was only the dismissed workers who demonstrated in the demonstrations, but later even workers from other enterprises joined in, using the shutdown to put pressure on the Chinese companies to re-hire their compatriots and raise wages.

In Ali. In addition to public offices such as police stations, courts, customs, and post offices, there are a large number of laborers in factories, shops, hotels, and restaurants, and these people may not be Ali. Dr. Khan's people, supported by simple compatriot feelings, also spontaneously joined the strike.

The strike not only affected the normal operation of the Zhongyan Huang oil refinery, but also touched the dignity of the royal family, because many servants were also used in the royal palace, and Saeed urgently called a cabinet meeting to ask the parliament to implement an emergency bill to quell the unrest.

At the sound of an order, the army and police were dispatched to deal with the demonstrators with high-pressure hoses and sticks, and at the entrance of the refinery, there was a shooting incident, in which five laborers were killed.

Tensions intensified, laborers carried corpses onto the streets of Takikati, crowds numbered in the tens of thousands, entire cities were paralyzed, water and electricity were cut off, garbage was piled up, taxis were on strike, hundreds of police officers formed a human wall in front of the Colin parliament building, Chinese-backed plexiglass riot shields with the word "public security" printed on them, and riot squads on standby formation, tear gas and batons were ready.

The marching crowd began to storm the police lines, and the two sides fought, but for Western journalists taking pictures from nearby high-rise buildings, it was not a big scene, and the scene and scale were much larger than this in South Korea and Hong Kong.

Suddenly there was a gunshot rang out, I don't know where the shooting was going, in short, a policeman was shot and fell to the ground, and then the armed gendarmes, who had been holding back, were dispatched, and the machine guns set up on the parliament building opened fire, and the machine guns were very crisp, and the demonstrators immediately scattered, leaving countless shoes, slogans and more than a dozen corpses on the ground.

Journalists got excited, snapped photos, and used satellite phones to report the latest situation to the country, and the Colin regime brutally suppressed the demonstrators.

In the era of information explosion, traditional media often lag behind online media, and before newspapers and television stations have prepared programs, videos of the Colin government's crackdown on protesting laborers broke out on YouTube, and the scene was bloody and terrifying, followed by the global mainstream media to report the incident.

Worse things are still to come, Saeed still has the support of the people in his own country, the trouble is only the foreign workers who get labor visas, and the servants make the masters, which is worth it, the fierce Bedouins began to fight back, and the Kolin natives could not bear it anymore, and spontaneously took up arms and took to the streets, beating and slaughtering the migrant workers.

The next day, the United States announced sanctions against Colin and asked the United Nations to condemn the Said's regime.

China decisively abstained from voting in the UN Security Council, and a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that this is an internal affair of another country, and we have always refrained from pointing fingers at other people's family affairs.

For a time, Said fell into internal and external difficulties, although he has the support of his own people, the army and the police, but after all, Colin is a small country, the total population of migrant workers is as high as 100,000, accounting for almost half of the country's population, many people have lived in Colin for two generations, rooted in the speech, can never go back to their homeland, the Colin government suppressed them, is to force them to death.

Late one night, a paratrooper assault team attacked Ali. Dr. Khan's lair and his supporters broke out in a fierce shootout, killing as many as twenty people, but ultimately unsuccessful.

The next day, Ali. Dr. Khan declared allegiance to His Highness Ahmed, the ** guerrilla force that Liu Handong now financed and maintained, which is not recognized by the international community.

Liu Handong and Ali. An old friend of Dr. Khan, the two sides immediately established contact and met for the first time in the desert north of Kolin.

Now the opposition to Said is divided into three parts, the first is Prince Ahmed, who is supported by the CIA, that is, the exiled Saleh family Hmants, who are supported by the mercenaries organized by Liu Handong and are the strongest.

The second is the religious forces in Colin's country, who were severely suppressed by Said, forced into exile, and weak, but representing orthodoxy, with many supporters and sympathizers in the country.

Finally, there is the emerging force, the Doctor's group of migrant workers, which has the largest number of people, but because they are not Colin's natives, the rebellion is unreasonable, so the force is the weakest.

Things have developed to such a point that Liu Handong's identity does not need to be concealed, he has Colin nationality, the rank of brigadier general, and is justified as the commander-in-chief of the rebels, Ahmed is a teenager who grew up in the mountains of Afghanistan, and he doesn't know anything about politics, he is a puppet, a signboard, as long as someone supports him, the puppet can still be the king.

With the joining of the doctor, the strength of the guerrillas increased greatly, expanding tenfold in an instant, and the number of soldiers reached as many as 2,000. Khan made a covenant that, after the matter was completed, he would grant citizenship to the foreign laborers who had lived for more than 10 years, and they could have the right to vote and to stand for election.

The rebel army has expanded rapidly, and the loose organization of the guerrillas is no longer suitable, and the reorganized team is divided into two brigades, under the jurisdiction of five battalions, and is in urgent need of a large number of military supplies, military uniforms, helmets, boots, quilts, tents, guns, ammunition, vehicles, fuel, and a large number of logistical support.

The venerable Manager Zhao once again reached out to help, providing him with the above materials and personnel at a low price, of course, the price is negotiable, and even on credit, as long as he seizes power, sits in the country, and gives him the right to exploit an oil field at will.

Liu Handong signed a secret contract with him, ordered 50 wheeled armored vehicles and self-propelled sports cars, the military products are too expensive, he bought a foreign trade armored car produced by China's Jiangbei Heavy Industry Group, the price is cheap and sufficient, proper, and it is also a product of his hometown, with the taste of his hometown. u