9-58 The King of War in Africa

Listrovsky is Russian, he worked in Lubyanka in his early years, when he was still a young KGB who had just joined the work, and later the KGB became the Russian Federal Security Service, and the unsatisfactory Listrovsky was sent to the Central African intelligence station to fight time, and since then he has changed from a cynic to a realist At that time, African civil wars were frequent, Angola, Sudan, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone were in a mess, and the shrewd Listrovsky took advantage of the situation to start an arms business, Antonov transport planes were used to transport a large number of obsolete automatic rifles, rocket launchers, grenades, and even armored vehicles and tanks from Russia, and then high-quality and low-cost Chinese goods poured into Africa, and Listrovsky's business was hit a lot.

Listrovsky has been in Africa for 20 years, and even Colonel Gaddafi is his friend, and ordinary warlords and ** people even call him the "king of war". In fact, this big fat man in his forties is very approachable, and he doesn't look like the legendary KGB at all, but more like a rich Arab businessman with a fat brain.

Because of Zhao Hui's introduction, Listerovsky received Liu Ziguang exceptionally, he waved his hand to disperse the dancer, asked the servant to put on two cushions, and began to talk about business with Liu Ziguang, although the arms dealer is fluent in English, but after all, it is not as free as the mother tongue, and can express accurate ideas better, so they communicate in Russian, and Dongfang Ke, who is proficient in Russian, acts as a translator.

"I heard, you're going to take over a country by force?" Listrovsky asked casually, but Liu Ziguang knew that the more he pretended not to care, the more he actually attached importance to it in his heart, he was waiting for his own request, but the more he was like this, the more he couldn't drop the price.

"There really are no secrets in this world, it's like this, I have raised a lot of money, recruited countless warriors, and are waiting for your weapons." Liu Ziguang said confidently.

Listrovsky laughed, the flesh on the belly of the laugh rolled like a wave, as if he had heard the funniest thing in the world, Dongfang Ke looked at Liu Ziguang in surprise, and the latter remained silent.

"My dear friend, do you think it's still the eighties? Gone are the days when a country could be seized with a few dozen AK47s, especially when some powerful forces intervened, and soldiers with automatic rifles were no different from targets under the muzzles of tanks and fighter jets, hahaha. Listrovsky continued to laugh wildly, but a teasing smile appeared on the corner of Liu Ziguang's mouth.

"Mr. Li, how are you sure that I have no plans to purchase heavy weapons, in fact, our country's tanks and fighters are the most cost-effective in the world, I can buy the most suitable tank at the cheapest price, and there is a Thunder fighter with no less performance than the F16, you should understand."

But the Russian fat man continued to laugh wildly, he lit Liu Ziguang with a cigar and said: "Young man, I was as patriotic as you were when I was old, and then the country will not love you as much as you love her, although your motherland is much stronger than forty years ago, but it is also much less courageous, I think they will not allow the appearance of state-made heavy weapons in a hot spot, you know, China-threat-coercion-theory is not a joke, you foreign ministry people will be frightened like quails when they hear this." ”

"So, what advice do you have?" Liu Ziguang replied from a different angle, in fact, he also understood in his heart that what Listrovsky said was the truth, Zhao Hui didn't even dare to sell the automatic rifles produced by NORINCO to himself, because he was afraid of political problems, let alone buy the Thunder Dragon fighter, which was enough to make headlines in arms sales that year.

"Young man, your opponent may be much stronger than you think, and my sources indicate that a recent order has been placed for the world's most advanced weapons and ammunition, arriving in West Africa...... Well, some very small country in West Africa, you know, and they also employ some of the fiercest and most dedicated mercenaries in the world, and they alone are enough to top a company of black soldiers, and I think it's hard to compete with them if you don't have some hard goods. Listrovsky said with a smile, looking like an elder.

"Yes, let me take a look at the small arms you have prepared." Liu Ziguang still rejected the other party's proposal, because he knew that if he hastily agreed, this greedy Russian fat man would definitely open his mouth, not only sell himself a batch of unused heavy weapons, but also ask for iron ore shares and other conditions, which he could not accept, at least under the current conditions.

"Okay." Listrovsky slapped his fat slap and called a tall bodyguard: "Alexander, take the guests to see the little gifts I have prepared for them." ”

Alexander was a very handsome young man, with a golden head, brown eyes, a strong physique, wearing desert boots and camouflage pants, he took Liu Ziguang and Dongfang Ke to a tent dozens of meters away, opened the curtain and invited the two to enter, which was full of army-green iron boxes with German letters printed on them.

Alexander opened a box and took out the well-packaged AKM automatic rifle, the oil seal was not moved, the parts were smooth and shiny, although it was a East German product twenty years ago, but it was extremely well maintained, and it did not affect the use at all, Liu Ziguang knew that the AK made in East Germany had even better performance than Russian goods, not to mention Chinese goods, North Korean goods, and Romanian goods.

Wiped off the oil seal on the gun with cotton yarn, Alexander took a brown-red live ammunition clip, and asked Liu Ziguang to go out to test the gun, a few humanoid targets have been erected one hundred and fifty meters away, Liu Ziguang skillfully loaded, aimed, first hit a calibration, and then hit a few three short point shots in a row, the steel targets all fell in response, Alexander couldn't help but show an appreciative look, you must know that the AK rifle is not the kind of single rifle with high accuracy during World War II, although the effective range is 400 meters, But being able to hit a target at a distance of 150 meters is already considered an excellent shooter, and Liu Ziguang is using an unfamiliar and uncorrected old gun, and he still shoots without support in a standing position, which is enough to show that he is a well-trained elite soldier.

Probably because of the itchy hand, Alexander took the gun and changed the magazine and fired a few shots, the results were naturally good, he put down the gun and shook hands with Liu Ziguang, with great pity.

Listrovsky is a well-known figure in the industry, and naturally he will not fool Liu Ziguang with scrapped copper and iron like the Eastern European gangsters, and the 200 AKM automatic rifles he promised are all in stock, although the price is slightly more expensive, reaching 1,000 US dollars each, but it is still within the acceptable range of Liu Ziguang.

Arms are profiteering commodities from ancient times to the present, knowing that the actual cost is very low, but you have to buy them, and the price of arms varies with different regions, the intensity of the war is also different, for example, in places like Somalia, the price of an AK47 is estimated to be no higher than a hen, while in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, an AK can be as high as 1,500 US dollars, which is still the price of Chinese products, if it is a Soviet product, the price is higher, and East German products are even more difficult to find.

Listrovsky equipped each automatic rifle with six magazines, all of which were brown-red polymer magazines, and gave 100,000 bullets and a batch of Russian-made grenades, and most importantly, he packed the transportation, there is nothing more troublesome than the transportation of arms, and he has to face the tracking and interrogation of the police, customs, intelligence agencies and international police of various countries, and Listrovsky has a very good relationship with African governments, and his special plane can fly over Africa with impunity, without worrying about any international police.

The arms dealer's Antonov-12 transport plane took off from a desert airfield in Libya, carrying 200 sets of AKM automatic rifles, including canvas gun belts and multi-purpose bayonets, as well as the ammunition sent, but Liu Ziguang also paid a high amount of money for this, 200,000 US dollars for the basic goods, 50,000 US dollars for transportation, and other expenses, which still saved a lot, because if it was transported by truck, the cost of passing through the borders of these African countries alone was not a small amount. Not counting the probability of a crisis that will occur halfway.

The pilot of the An-12 was none other than Listrovsky's bodyguard Alexander, the young man wore a white short-sleeved shirt, carried four golden bars on his shoulders, and was very long, and his co-pilot was a black man, who was said to have flown a MiG in the Libyan Air Force.

Liu Ziguang and Dongfang Ke sat in the cramped cabin and were uneasy, these two pilots didn't look like professionals no matter how they looked at it, the plane swayed in the clouds, it was like a roller coaster, the mountain of automatic rifle boxes would have rolled all over the cabin if it weren't for the sturdy bundles, and the miserable Dongfang Ke had already smeared the cabin floor with his vomit.

"Alexander, are you sure you learned to fly?" Dongfang Ke asked breathlessly.

"Yes, I used to study at the Moscow Aviation School." Alexander replied triumphantly.

"Excuse me, have you graduated?" Dongfang Ke asked a sentence that should not be asked.

Alexander's face became grim, and he suddenly pushed the control stick sharply, and the plane swooped down, and Dongfang Ke continued to vomit.

Liu Ziguang couldn't help laughing, the reckless Alexander reminded him of Bei Xiaoshuai, this kid took 700,000 yuan to go to the Aviation Academy to learn to fly, and he hasn't been expelled for a semester, it seems that he will have a special plane pilot in the near future.

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