"This is a century-old arms business with a total value of more than $80 billion."

Li Lu could only hide this sentence in his heart, and no one could tell him.

He may not know the composition of composite armor, but he is absolutely familiar with the history of modern warfare in the world. The Iran-Iraq war, which broke out in September 1980, is often seen as the last attrition-oriented local war in which traditional forces competed.

In the 1991 Gulf War, the Americans chose Iraq as their military testing ground to test the phased achievements of building up the army through science and technology, thus presenting the world with a veritable asymmetrical high-tech war. At this time, only three years had passed since the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

A year before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, the last *** feudal dynasty in Iran was overthrown, that is, the *** revolution led by Khomeini took place. The following year, in 1980, Iraq attempted to resolve the border dispute while Iran's civil strife was still unsettled, and in September, the Iraqi army launched a full-scale offensive and the Iran-Iraq war broke out.

The Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988.

That is, it was a border war that lasted for eight whole years, a veritable war of attrition. In the early stage, Iraq, which was rich and strong, had the upper hand and attacked frequently, while Iran tried its best to defend itself, and even mobilized a large number of young people under the age of 14 to join the army.

As time passed, the combat capabilities of the two armies gradually leveled to the same level, and this war, which lasted for seven years and eleven months to be exact, was a veritable marathon war of resource attrition.

$80 billion is only a rough estimate of Li Lu, and in fact, the military spending of the two countries in this war is far more than this figure. In the post-war period alone, the combined foreign debt of the two countries reached $100 billion. Theoretically, the economies of the two countries have been set back by at least two decades after the war, and their economic development plans have been severely affected.

Objectively speaking, the Americans picked up a bargain. Iraq had just ended its eight-year border war with Iran, and the Americans had started a war against Iraq. There was only a gap of two or three years, and even the United States itself, after such an eight-year war of attrition, could not resurrect in two or three years.

Of course, the high-tech strike system of the US military is an undeniable and absolute bright spot, which has shocked the whole world, especially the sensitive nerves of the Chinese army.

You must know that until 1989, there was still war on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang.

After comparing the two sides, the Chinese army clearly realized that the gap between itself and the US military was half a century away.

Li Lu has already taken off his military uniform, and in terms of army building, his identity can only be that of an arms supplier, and through the research and development of advanced weapons and equipment, he can promote the development of army building from this aspect.

Therefore, he has to have money, Huaxia coins don't work, he wants dollars, a lot of dollars.

He didn't want to do business with the two countries only once, and the war before and after eight years, but at least seven years from now on. For such a long time, you can imagine how much weapons and equipment the two countries need to consume. The first sale is especially important, as the more equipment you sell, the more ammo you'll need.

Ammunition is the big one!

The work on the side of the seaside guest house was arranged, that is, the No. 3 courtyard of the municipal party committee guest house. Li Lu greeted the seaside guest house through Secretary Zhou, the safety work of foreign merchants is the responsibility of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Li Lu and the people of the Municipal Bureau also have a good relationship, things are done smoothly, and all aspects provide convenience to Li Lu.

Back at the Red Star Factory, Li Lu locked himself in his room and began to think about the supply plan with a frown on his brows - what to provide to Iran and what to provide to Iraq.

That's what he should focus on, not about whether Iran or Iraq will want it — they want it right now, as long as they can improve their fighting power right away.

Emphasizing that the negotiation work will be very difficult, and putting this and that difficulty is just a set of rhetoric by Li Lu to the outside world, if not, how can he show his importance in this matter and how great the efforts he needs to make are?

The supply plan is not so easy to come up with, although Li Lu does not think that the weapons and equipment he provides will not have a great impact on the war situation, and he also knows that this war will eventually end with "both sides returning to their pre-war positions", but the wings of the butterfly have been instigated, even if there is a one percent probability of an accident, Li Lu does not dare to take this risk.

If one side kills one side because he focuses on providing arms to one side...... It was hard for him to imagine that kind of scene.

Li Lu profoundly understood the meaning of a sentence: It is not the warring sides that determine the balance of victory and defeat in a war, but the arms dealers.

After careful consideration, Li Lu decided to focus on the Iranian side. Without him, Saddam Hussein will be finished sooner or later, and it is okay to make him some quick money, and it is a waste of resources to build the basis for long-term cooperation. However, he has a tendency in his heart, but he must not show it in negotiations, and must adhere to the principle of neutrality of arms dealers - to provide what the customer needs and be politically neutral.

With a focus, he took out the quotation list of armaments provided by the new Guangming Factory, began to prepare the supply plan, stayed for an afternoon, and came up with several plans, which can fully meet the requirements of customers.

Iranian business representatives are the fastest, at this stage, they are on the disadvantaged side, they urgently need to replenish weapons and ammunition, and after gaining a foothold, they are still thinking about counterattacking, so they have been very happy in the past few negotiations.

Shapur was the number two man in the Iranian business delegation, the one who held the decision-making power, the little old man with a beard and a falcon-like gaze, and went straight to the dry port with only an assistant and interpreter, and was obviously a vigorous and resolute man.

The war is tight, the army is accumulating and replenishing weapons and ammunition, and it needs advanced weapons and equipment to give the Iraqis a little color, Shapur received an order to get back a batch of weapons and ammunition as quickly as possible, and solve the urgent need first. In the previous orders negotiated with other manufacturers, he made a phone call almost a day and strongly demanded that the manufacturers deliver the goods, so that the manufacturers had to ask the management department for instructions, and finally directly pulled the equipment on active duty of the army and loaded it onto the ship......

Obviously, after solving the urgent need, Shapur's goal was very clear - he was going straight to the Asian Tiger tank.

The Iraqis have the support of the Soviets, they have a large number of T-72 main battle tanks, and if Iran wants to form a counterweight or even overpower the enemy's armored forces, it will have to buy more advanced tanks, at least no worse than the T-72!

So, when Li Lu and Niu Jun received Shapur, Shapur directly asked the cadres of the foreign affairs department who accompanied him to watch the demonstration of the combat performance of the Asian Tiger tank first, and he didn't even plan to go to the guest house to settle down first.

After the foreign affairs department and the relevant departments had an urgent communication, the hairless foreign affairs cadre in the middle of his head gave Li Lu an order, "Director Li, arrange it, we must ensure that nothing goes wrong, not only to let foreign businessmen fully understand the performance of the tank, but also to ensure that secrets are not leaked." ”

"Please rest assured, chief! Mission completion guaranteed! Li Lu straightened his chest and agreed.

He smiled and said to Shapur, "Mr. Shappu, I will arrange the next, please come with me." ”

Li Lu had actually made all the preparations.

The group drove to the northwest suburbs of the city where the Hongxing Factory was located, and a large piece of land of two or three thousand acres belonged to the Hongxing Factory. The Red Star Defense Company wanted to build a comprehensive vehicle test site, and found several places, and for future considerations, Li Lu simply built this test site on the plot where the Red Star Factory was located. The manager of the Red Star Defense Company is him, as long as it does not involve equity distribution, he can make full decisions about the specific operation.

The Red Star Factory first purchased, and then transferred to the Red Star Defense Company, which was handed over by the Red Star Defense Company and Fenyuan Hong Kong Company, and finally to the user. To put it bluntly, it is all in Li Lu's hands, but in order to achieve the goal, it is necessary to do such a reversal.

Wan Shan and Xiang Ping drove to the comprehensive vehicle test site one step ahead to inform everyone to get ready, and the three cars of Li Lu and others arrived on the back foot. The people in foreign affairs, the people in charge of local security, and the people in the local government, so that when Li Lu came out of Wanshan and Xiangping, there were only two people, him and Niu Jun.

When he got out of the car, Li Lu whispered to Niu Jun, "For a while, you try to stand on the side of foreign affairs and local cadres and listen to what they say." ”

"Why?" Niu Jun's eyes widened suddenly.

Li Lu said in a low voice, "It's nothing, just look at what kind of attitude they have, don't think about it." ”

Niu Jun had a strange expression of believing you, but she didn't refuse.

Shapur was really anxious, and when he arrived at the temporary observation platform, he said to Li Lu, "Mr. Li, can you start?" ”

"Yes, of course." Li Lu took the individual radio handed over by Wan Shan and gave an order.

Two Asian Tigers painted in earth yellow rushed out of the hidden position on the left side of the observation platform, all the way to accelerate, the butt up position gurgling black smoke, the company provided 900 horsepower diesel engine to give the Asian Tiger tank far more maneuverable than the 59 tank, faster, more flexible and more powerful.

Yesterday there was just a light rain, the ground was a little wet, the crawlers struggled to run over, rolled up bursts of mud, formed two flying black belts in the back, in the diesel engine powerful roar against the background, suddenly there was the atmosphere of the battlefield, all of a sudden the observers into the atmosphere.

The tank crew of the Red Star Defense Company is the original team of the old Guangming Factory, and they are originally experienced crew members transferred from the troops.

Li Lu directly grabbed the job of the narrator and translator, and introduced Shapur, "Mr. Shapur, what I see now is the acceleration performance of the Asian Tiger tank, you can see that from starting to reaching the maximum off-road speed, the time is much shorter than that of the T-72, and with the advanced walking system, the maneuverability of the Asian Tiger tank is almost 20 percent higher than that of the T-72." ”

Shapur nodded slightly, he was a military officer, he was very aware of the importance of mobility to the tank, and he could also see the level of acceleration of the Asian Tiger tank.

The two Asian Tiger tanks formed a battle squad to complete the rapid acceleration of the straight, and after reaching full speed, they continued to drive forward, and when they reached the middle of the corresponding observation platform, they suddenly made a sharp turn of 90 degrees to the left, and the crisp and neat split was very perfect.

This is not yet the move that shocked Shapur, it is the next ......