Chapter 177: Go Your Own Way
Throughout the day, more than 20 operatives, including Wang Dong, and 19 Saudi special forces from two squads were busy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In order to save their lives, these Saudi special forces are also active.
In addition, there are surviving villagers.
Although he did not trust the Saudis, let alone the mercenaries, Wang Dong said that as long as he participated in the work, he would let them go before dark, and the villagers would mobilize.
In fact, there are only a dozen or so middle-aged women who can do manual work, and the rest are all old people and children.
The men went out to fight, and women in the prime of life were the main laborers.
There aren't a lot of people, but they're very efficient.
At noon, the core fortifications around the three brick houses in the middle were completed, that is, the courtyard walls were strengthened, and the three gaps were plugged with sheep dung and forage hoarded by the villagers.
In order to facilitate access, the adjacent courtyard wall was also demolished.
The courtyard wall is not strong, but it certainly cannot be broken, and the height is about three meters, which cannot be climbed with bare hands.
In addition, three houses have been reinforced, mainly by thickening the walls to ensure that they can block rifle bullets, and the main parts can also block machine gun bullets.
In the afternoon, Xie Chuyue personally went into battle and commanded the special forces to demolish some village houses through blasting.
These cottages are not strong enough to serve as strongholds, but they block the firing range in the main direction and can be exploited by the enemy.
Wang Dong was not idle, he was responsible for building a firepower point on the roof of the building.
As for Luo Qing and Zhao Huang, in addition to being responsible for everyone's food, they also go around various places from time to time to cheer up the special forces.
Men, they always try to behave well in front of women.
In the evening, when Luo Qing brought dinner, Wang Dong was watching the sunset, holding a cigarette in his hand, and the ash was half long.
On the roof of the building there were five improvised machine-gun forts, three facing outwards and the other two on the sides.
The fort was reinforced with sandbags and had three layers, not to mention rifle bullets, even heavy machine gun bullets of .50 caliber would definitely not be able to penetrate.
The height is level with the roof parapet, which provides good cover and is not visible below.
Between several forts, sandbags were also built along the parapet, but only half a meter high.
If suppressed by fire, when moving between fortresses, you can only crawl forward.
Of course, this is not a problem.
It's not that there aren't enough sandbags, but that the load-bearing capacity of the roof is limited, and if there are too many sandbags, it's dangerous, and Wang Dong doesn't want to crush the house.
"What are you thinking?"
"Isn't it beautiful?"
Luo Qing was slightly stunned, only to realize that Wang Dong was talking about the sunset.
It is indeed beautiful, the sky in the west seems to be ignited, and the earth is also burned red, which is exactly the same as the desert in northwest China.
"It's still hot, hurry up and eat it." Luo Qing felt uncomfortable in his heart, maybe because he was tired, maybe he thought of his hometown that he would never go back to.
"We've been over there for a few years, haven't we?"
Luo Qing was stunned for a moment, but then he understood that Wang Dong was talking about the training base of the Military Intelligence Bureau in northwest China.
That place is also a desert, and the evening scenery is so gorgeous.
"I remember some of the events of that time, just not much." Wang Dong turned around and said, "I remember that you would sit down every evening and watch the sunset in a daze. ”
"Let's eat." Luo Qing stuffed the lunch box into Wang Dong's hand.
"Misremember?"
Luo Qing smiled reluctantly and did not answer.
Wang Dong really remembered wrong, because what Luo Qing liked was not the sunset, but the rising sun.
In the desert, especially in summer, the sunset is not much different from the rising sun, but it appears in the opposite direction.
Wang Dong didn't say anything more, and devoured it.
After working for a long time, he was already hungry.
"Don, if you had known, would you still be here?"
"What did you know?" Wang Dong glanced at Luo Qing before he said, "Yes, because we have no choice." At the beginning, we were in Miami, and no matter how many difficulties and dangers there were, even if it was a dead end, I would stick to it, either fall down or break out of the world. You know, I don't care what other people think, I care about you, all the brothers who follow me. ”
"Go your own way and leave no one else to go?"
Wang Dong smiled, this is what he said after killing Strachey.
"So, have you ever thought that on our own, this road will only get narrower and narrower." Luo Qing sighed before saying, "I never question your decision, and I never doubt your ability, it's just that we sell arms, not toys, and nothing else." Even if this time, relying on Mura's personal connections, he got the order, there will be no next time, at least not every time. ”
"So, it's all the more important to come here."
Luo Qing frowned, and looked at Wang Dong incomprehensibly.
"Any idea why I want Serena to be the president of the company?"
"She's French."
"Yes, now Scottish, but Western. If I, or you, or Zhao Yu, or any of the other Chinese people among us come forward, let alone come here to compete for the Saudi military's procurement contract, I am afraid that we will not even be able to set up a company. ”
Luo Qing nodded slightly, indicating that he understood what Wang Dong meant.
"It's just that Serena is a civilian, and even if the D&F company does it, it is only a private enterprise, and it is a small business."
"So ......"
"So, we need a bigger backer."
Luo Qing was slightly stunned and said, "Do you want to use this opportunity to get in touch with Mohammed, and then get the support of the Saudi royal family?" ”
"The Saudi royal family is the Saudi authorities, and the whole of Saudi Arabia."
"The problem is, Saudi Arabia is not a powerhouse and ......"
"It's always a country, and it's a big country in the Gulf region, and it has a lot of influence. What's more, the last thing the Saudi royal family lacks is money. ”
"You ......"
"Without money, we can't do anything."
"If only for the money......"
"It's not ordinary money, it's money from the right source, to be precise, it's an investment, i.e. there is no problem with every penny we get."
Luo Qing sighed and didn't say anything more.
Obviously, Wang Dong has already thought it through and knows what to do.
As Popovich said, the arms trade is not an ordinary business, and it cannot be sold with good quality and low price, and what Wang Dong is doing now is to make up for the shortcomings.
With Saudi orders and investment from the Saudi royal family, who would doubt the strength of D&F?
In addition, with the support of Saudi Arabia, Wang Dong can justifiably promote D&F's products around the world and compete with Western arms companies for the market.
Well, it makes perfect sense to take the risk for this.
At this time, explosions were heard from the north, as well as gunshots.
In a short time, billowing sand and dust rose on the horizon.
A pickup truck is heading towards the village, and behind it, there are hundreds of vehicles, large and small, and a large herd of camels running wildly on both sides of the road!
That's right, it's a camel!
It's just that the enemy on a camel is brandished not with an Arab scimitar, but with an assault rifle.