Chapter 452: The Commander's Ambition
More than half a century ago, Cancun, Mexico, was a small fishing village with a population of just over 300, but at the time of the cataclysm, it was a tourist city that welcomed two million tourists a year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info here is a resort with bright sunshine, clear water, and white sandy beaches.
But now it's as ghostly as all the cities in the world.
Commander Blucher, who was staying in a five-star hotel suite, was standing by the window, his mood as gloomy as the endless gray sky outside the window. Behind him, the smuggler Koma was enthusiastically fiddling with a portable boiler, and when the fire heated the cold water, the cold room slowly warmed up.
"Your Excellency, what do you think of this boiler? It allows your soldiers to get a good living environment, improve their morale and combat effectiveness, and be happy to serve you. The most rare thing is that this kind of boiler is very cheap, and it only takes hardware coins to sell one. "Kolmar does everything it can to market its products.
There were other naval officers from the 'Enclave' in the suite, all of whom were tormented to death by the cold of the nuclear winter, and a lightweight and practical boiler was a strategic material they desperately needed.
"Hardware?" Commander Blucher asked coldly, holding a gold coin with the Aurora Banner in his hand. It is a gold-copper-nickel alloy that weighs ten grams and is made by stamping with toothed edges.
"Yes." Komar bowed and smiled, he looked at the expressionless face of the potential big customer in front of him, and said worriedly: "If the purchase volume is large, the price can be appropriately reduced." β
But the indifferent Commander Blucher whispered: "I really didn't expect the 'Aurora Legion' to start issuing metal currency, and this currency is not small in circulation, and it is used throughout the entire Caribbean. β
"Yes, Aurora is still a strong currency in the Caribbean, and everyone recognizes its value." Koma continued to laugh.
Blucher turned his head slightly, and glanced at Koma contemptuously, "The goods you sell are all from Havana, right?" I had just ordered that any Aurora Legion merchandise should be banned from circulation, and you came to sell me this boiler. You're smuggling, and you're flouting the laws I have enacted. β
Ah...... Koma's face froze, and he didn't know what the commander in front of him meant.
After the cataclysm, there were large-scale riots in the Caribbean, and a society like Mexico, where drug lords are more powerful than the government, has emerged with a large number of warlords competing for power. In the chaotic fighting, not only did a large number of people die, but the already fragile industrial system of the region was destroyed. And this is the case throughout Latin America.
When the nuclear winter comes, all the survivors will have to survive, and the only one who can still provide industrial goods is the 'Aurora Army'. Havana's goods are sought-after, and for people in the Caribbean, they are a life-and-death necessity.
Why is Commander Blucher still not satisfied with such good cargo?
Before Koma could figure this out, Blucher, the commander of the high-ranking Enclave's fleet in Cancun, had already announced his verdict, "Take this smuggler down and hang him in a few days, we must curb the rampant smuggling at the moment." β
The guards rushed up and dragged Koma, who was screaming and struggling, down, and the 'Enclave' officers in the suite were all expressionless, but they looked at the portable boiler with eagerness, this thing was so useful.
Seeing that his officers were staring at the small boiler, Commander Blucher, who had made the verdict, raised his voice a little and continued to his subordinates: "Gentlemen, you don't sympathize with a smuggler, do you? β
A dozen or so officers looked at each other a few times, and one of them pretended to be bold and asked, "Your Excellency, we now have more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in CancΓΊn, and more than 5,000 Mexican security forces responsible for maintaining order.
But now the living conditions are extremely bad, and the soldiers complain a lot. It's too time-consuming for supplies for so many people to come from New Orleans, and maybe we can really get some supplies from the Aurora Army, since we're closer to Havana.
Even if we buy supplies, the 'Aurora Legion' will only earn some gold, and they won't get much benefit from it, but we can settle down here." It will be too late to implement a strict lockdown plan in a few months. β
This sounded very reasonable, but Commander Blucher shook his head and said: "We are here to carry out the blockade mission, and since it is a blockade, it must be complete." If we don't cut off all smuggling channels cleanly now, it will be even more impossible to cut them off in the future.
And the 'Aurora Legion' is not just getting some gold, they will get a lot of supplies. If you look at the warships we came this time, they were all converted and burned coal, in fact, they all learned from the 'Aurora Legion'.
According to the information we have received, the 'Aurora Army' is extremely short of coal, the coal mines in Cuba are barren, and the only coal mines are also peat with very low calorific value, which is used as fertilizer. As long as we block the smuggling passage in Cancun, the development of the 'Aurora Army' will be greatly restricted.
Ladies and gentlemen, we the Enclave are the future rulers of the American continent. The last days are a disaster for ordinary people, but for us they are a great opportunity to open up new territories. When we control the Caribbean, we will also control South America, and even the whole world. The Aurora Legion is destined to be a stepping stone to our feats. β
The arrogance of these words was surging, and some of the more than a dozen officers were enthusiastic, but some people were still unhappy and said: "Your Excellency, the strength of the 'Aurora Legion' is limited, and even if we don't block it, it can't stop us from occupying the entire Caribbean." β
"Limited strength?" Commander Blucher snorted coldly, "You look down on that Victor too much. Hugo's guy is up. He escaped from New York on only two ships, not even a safe place to stay.
Arriving in the waters of the Bahamas, he occupied only a small part of the island of Grand Abaco, which looked like it could be cleaned up at any moment. But what about later? He took Nassau, landed in Miami, tricked us Enclave in Florida, and now he's the Lord of Cuba.
In fact, when I was sent to Cancun, I asked the high-level of the headquarters to give me enough support to completely eradicate the tumor of the 'Aurora Army'.
But those bastards at the top have been staring at the Iron Brotherhood in the north, so they gave me these few steam-broken ships. If I were given a few regular warships, I would attack Havana directly and level the 'Aurora Army', instead of playing some kind of blockade trick here.
I warn you not to be careless, Victor. Hugo is not a guy who will be honest in Cuba, he is an extremely dangerous guy. I'm blocking him now, and he'll definitely find a way to break through it.
I must keep my eyes open when I go to bed, and I must not let a grain of coal, a piece of wood, or a population of Mexico go to Cuba. Our mission is to get Victor. Hugo felt so bad that one day he was completely destroyed! (To be continued.) )