Chapter 4 (II) The Real War
"Yo, isn't this Mr. Quinn, the famous King of Arms?" Out of the T-54 tank was an officer-like figure β wearing a camouflage uniform, an old-fashioned German steel helmet, and carrying an AK100 assault rifle. This black man was at least 1.9 meters tall and very athletic, and after he appeared, the soldiers around him immediately stood up and saluted, with a serious face.
"Oops? This is not an old-fashioned tank lover Ali. Addy? Quinn tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of blood with dirt in it, "I can get the old Pershing, and if you like Sherman, I can bring it to you, but I guess I can't fire shells." β
The black officer named Eddie came down and deliberately kicked Quinn again, then put his chin on tiptoe and looked down, "If I tied you up, would your company trade the T-62 or T-72?" β
As he spoke, Eddie stepped on Quinn's cheek and rubbed it hard, his smile getting brighter as the frequency grew.
"They'll trade a couple of meals of explosives and give my family a big pension." Quinn laughed. "Alright, get up!" Eddie grabbed Quinn by the collar, grabbed him, dragged him to the side of the tank, and whispered, "What are you doing here?" You are not welcome in this country! At the same time, you sell weapons to the political axe army, us, and the low-level bastards of the liberation front! β
"Don't get excited, Colonel Add." Quinn pointed to his pocket and took out a tissue to wipe his face and the blood that flowed out, "It's like a supermarket paper towel, it will be sold to women who must use it for water, children who must use it for runny noses, and men and women who must use it for popping, or chrysanthemum men, who needs to sell it to whom, war should be fair, right?" You have AK100, so you don't allow them to have AK47, AKM? Then you might as well convince them to commit suicide. β
Eddie suddenly laughed: "Quinn- Quinn- Quinn- this mouth of yours will kill you one day sooner or later, I know, you are waiting for me here on purpose, right?" But why did you kill my men? β
"Because I want to show my friends what they're really good at, they're new to our company." Quinn pointed sideways at Tang Shuxing and the others, who were still held down in front of the tank, and approached Eddie again, "We'll go to Kanga Province, but we don't have a pass, but we are foreigners, we have a gun license, and we can get close to the camp of the Khanga Provincial Political Axe Army, maybe we can see that guy from Hammode, just in case...... Our guns went off and killed Hammod with one shot? β
Eddie stared at Quinn's eyes, his eyes swaying from side to side, and he said for a long time: "Quinn, you won't do that, if you dare to take that risk, you must want something more valuable than gold and diamonds!" β
Quinn straightened his clothes, rubbed the blood out of his nose, and said, "Isn't Hammode your mortal enemy?" β
"Just the four of you?" Eddie shook his head and said, "You're joking, you want me to let you go, it's useless, I said last time, if you sell weapons to the liberation front again, I will kill you with my own hands." With that, Add pulled out his pistol and held it against Quinn's head.
"Alright! Before I shoot, though, I have two gifts for you. Quinn was not afraid, took out a small bottle of corpse drugs and contaminated perfume from his coat pocket, and handed it to Eddie, "This is the medicine that strengthens the warrior, the perfume bottle contains a liquid that can strengthen the soldier, as long as you spray it on yourself, you can control the strengthened warrior, whether it is your own or the enemy's!" β
Eddie frowned and looked at Quinn, wondering what trick he was playing? But in his heart, he knew that Quinn would not deceive people in weapons and equipment, after all, he was an arms dealer who was willing to be a long-term dealer, not a gangster who played tickets.
Quinn then convinces Eddie to find soldiers to experiment with the same tactics as he did with the Liberation Front in the afternoon, but Eddie asks his men to capture a local who is hiding in the basement, ready to wait for the end of this little war to come out and pick up the rags and sell the hotel waiter.
Consumed necropolic drugs and then shot...... After a series of events, Eddie was also dumbfounded, and finally pulled out the machete of the soldier next to him and cut off the arm of the waiter who had been corpsed, but the other party stood there motionless, just staring at him blankly, without the slightest expression of pain.
"At least 100 percent increase in combat effectiveness." Quinn leaned against the tank and laughed, "I sold this drug to the liberation front as well!" β
Eddie turned around suddenly, looked at Quinn, lifted him, and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time, at this time Quinn lifted the perfume bottle and sprayed it towards Eddie's neck, and said: "Colonel Eddie, don't be so excited, I just sold them the formula and samples, and provided the manufacturing technology, but I didn't give them this kind of perfume that can control the corpse soldiers, I sold it to you......"
Eddie slowly let go of Quinn and shook his head, "I don't believe you." β
Quinn laughed: "Colonel Eddie, in Astaya, the only group that has a physical body to overthrow the current political axe is you Golden Frenzy, the National Liberation Front is just a rabble, I believe you can make this country prosperous and strong......"
Tang Shuxing and the others, who were loosened on one side, understood that Quinn was calculating the two sides, selling corpse drugs to the National Liberation Front, but not selling them the perfume, but instead selling the perfume to the golden frenzy. Without perfume, the National Liberation Front is just a factory of corpsed soldiers, just a steady stream of created soldiers for the Golden Frenzy.
It's the same as selling attack drones to Party A, but selling remote control equipment to Party B.
The ape king of the National Liberation Front really has a low IQ, and now he is estimated to happily take the corpse drug back to ask for credit, and then wait for the technicians of the Sharman Power Company, and then put it into production, and then test it on the militia, and when the time comes, the Golden Frenzy only needs to send a person with the control of the perfume to their factory, and the situation can be controlled immediately.
Add's mind was much more nimble than that of the ape king, and when Quinn explained that he had only sold corpse drugs to the National Liberation Front, the first thing he asked was, "How do I know if you sold them this control perfume?" β
"Add, I'm an arms dealer, an arms dealer who has been here for many years, you know that if I lie to you, I can't leave Asaya at all, I will be killed by you in the most cruel way, I am afraid of death, so I will not lie to you, and I will take my people to assassinate General Hammod." Quinn said expressionlessly, "If he dies, the political axes of Kanga Province will be leaderless, and you will control the corpse soldiers of the national liberation front to carry out the first wave of attacks, and after disintegrating the battle line of the political axe army, the golden frenzy of infantry will be unimpeded, and maybe you will soon be able to control the whole country." β
"Quinn, what do you want?" Add stared into Quinn's eyes, "I don't want money." β
"I just need you to open a pass, let us reach Kanga Province safely, and you won't have to worry about the rest." Quinn lowered his head after speaking, "One more thing, I need to know if there have been large-scale military operations by the Axe Army in the near future, such as attacking the mines of you and the Liberation Front, and whether there is any information on the kidnapping and capture of foreigners." β
"Heh-" Eddie laughed, "you're here to rescue the hostages again, aren't you?" Did the political axe do it this time? β
"It's true, yes!" Quinn nodded, "And it was General Hammeade's men who did it, which means that now I am on the same front as you and face the same enemy." β
"Waitβ" Eddie left, returned to the tank, and came out again after ten minutes or so, and said to Quinn, "A few days ago, the political axe army attacked a diamond mine controlled by the National Liberation Front, and the foreigners were not caught, but the mercenaries captured two alive, and I heard that the mercenaries were there to save the foreigners, and the foreigner died, and died a strange death, and I heard that there was a very magical gem. β
As he spoke, Eddie propped up the tank and sneered, "Quinn, you're here for that gem, right?" β
"Colonel Add, you know, I only care about saving people, and the rest has nothing to do with me, just ask them if you want to." Quinn pointed at Tang Shuxing and the others, "But I have to wait until my mission is completed, otherwise no one will dare to do business with me in the future." β
"Get on the armored vehicles in the back, and I'll take you to the border crossing of Kanga Province, but you have to walk more than ten kilometers of unarmed ceasefire on foot, and it depends on your luck whether it's a blessing or a curse." Eddie said as he took the control perfume from Quinn's hand and added, "I want the recipe for this perfume." β
"This perfume is enough for you to use for a long time, as for the formula, I'll talk about it after I complete the task!" Quinn said with a smile, "I've got to leave myself a way out, right?" If everything is given to you, and you sell me again, I will die. β
"Sure enough, it's a businessman." Add patted Quinn on the shoulder and motioned for him to get into the armored car.
Quinn waved to Tang Shuxian and the others, got into a BMP3 armored car in the back, and huddled with the two golden frenzy soldiers in it, but after getting into the car, Quinn immediately said in Chinese: "Use Chinese, don't talk in English, most of their soldiers can understand English and French, because the British and French have colonized this country in turn." β
After the armored car started, Quinn opened the window and looked outside, and said: "Three, we have three missions after we arrive in Kanga Province, one is to rescue the hostages, the second is to find the blue diamond, and the third is to assassinate General Hammod, the military head of Kanga Province of the Political Axe Army. β
"Assassination!?" Ji Kefeng was stunned for a moment.
"Assassination of the General of the Political Axe?" Tang Shuxing was also surprised, "This is something that is not planned!" β
"It's the deal!" Quinn looked back, glancing at the two soldiers who couldn't understand them, with a deliberate smile on his face, as if he was telling a joke, "It's just that you can't get a pass for controlling the perfume." β
"Mr. Quinn." Gu Huaiyi put the gun on his legs and leaned forward to approach Quinn, "I'm afraid your plan is to make this country break out into a bigger war, right?" You sell corpse drugs to the National Liberation Front, control perfume to Add, and let us assassinate the political axe general, as soon as he dies, the Golden Frenzy will immediately command the corpse soldiers of the National Liberation Front to attack Kanga Province. β
"Oops, you've found out." Quinn smiled, leaning against the rear side of the armored car, "I'm an arms dealer, there is no war, what am I selling?" I've had a very bad quarter, so I have to find a way. β
"You're trying to turn this country into a testing ground for corpse drugs, right?" Tang Shuxing said for a while, "Because that new type of drug has not yet been subjected to a real war experiment, this country that has been war-torn for many years just meets the conditions, and the most important thing is that the Americans support the political axe army, and the Russians support the golden frenzy, if this war starts, the incident of corpse soldiers will instantly spread all over the world, and then the big countries will definitely discuss this new type of drug with your company in private, no, no, no, that thing will not be a drug at that time, but a combat concoction, right?" β
"Listen." Quinn's gaze swept over the faces of the three of them one by one, "I'm just a representative, and you're just an expatriate from Shangdu, but the command of this mission is me, so we just need to follow the steps and achieve the goal, as for the processes that assist us in completing these tasks, it doesn't matter, and it has nothing to do with you, understand?" β
There was silence inside the armored car, and there was no sound except for the roar of the engine, and it was not until an hour later that the three of them became nervous when the gunfire and artillery fire outside rang out, and Quinn only explained nonchalantly: "Don't worry, in this kind of area, the golden frenzy and the liberation front will clash from time to time, and they will each firing a few shots and firing a few rockets symbolically." β
As soon as Quinn finished speaking, a mortar shell landed next to the armored car, shaking everyone in the car to roll out of their seats and huddle together, and then heard the driver in front of him shouting: "Don't take your head!" β
Stupid Γ to go out and look for death! Tang Shuxing pushed away a soldier whose nose was bleeding, returned to his original seat, and just sat down, another RPG rocket hit the right side of the armored car, and the whole body shook violently, and the soldier next to the armor was immediately stunned, and the armored car then stopped operating, and the machine guns of the two tanks in front and behind could be heard firing, and the driver of the armored car was heard shouting: "Get out!" All out! They have incendiary bombs! Damn it! β
As soon as he finished speaking, two more mortar shells fell around the armored car, and a golden maniac soldier opened the car door and rolled out, and as soon as he rolled out, he was hit in the chest by two incoming bullets and fell to the ground and died, and Ji Kefeng, who was following him, was just about to go out, and immediately shrank back when he saw this - he knew that this was not an anti-drug mission, this was a real battlefield!
Quinn stepped forward and kicked Ji Kefeng out, and then he also ran out, dragging Ji Kefeng behind the tank, and shouted to Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng who rushed over: "This BMP3 armored car, without reactive armor and fence armor, the chassis can't carry an anti-tank mine, the side armor is too thin, two RPGs can open out, stay in it is looking for death!" You all follow me, don't shoot at random, don't get involved in their conflicts, now head north and take cover along the way! β
With that, Quinn plunged headlong into the grass of the wasteland next to him, crawling forward at great speed. Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi followed, Ji Kefeng was a little slow, and wanted to ask why he wanted to enter the kind of grass pile with almost no protection ability, the tank next to him opened fire, and the sound of the cannon shook him to the ground, his eyes began to dizzy, and his head was too heavy to lift up, Tang Shuxing quickly turned around and climbed back, dragging him into the grass.
Quinn in front stopped, shook his head and looked at Ji Kefeng, who was stunned, and waved his hand to signal them to hurry up and climb towards the other end of the wasteland, because the soldiers of the liberation front on the right had already fired incendiary bombs with mortars, and the wasteland on the right had already burned, and the fire would soon spread to the wasteland on the left.
The Golden Frenzy soldiers on the road fought back in an orderly manner towards the militia of the liberation front that attacked them, but one of the two armored vehicles had been destroyed, and the remaining engine was blown up from above by a mortar, losing the ability to maneuver, and the driver of the car immediately ran out, knowing that staying inside was just a live target for the RPG.
"These idiots! Advance in a line, thinking that the wasteland on both sides is a flat river and can't hide people, feint on the left to attract attention, and then use RPG salvo on the right to finish off! Fortunately, it was only an infantry attack, and if there were helicopter gunships on the liberation front, it would only take one round of attack tanks and armored vehicles to be paralyzed! Quinn cursed as he crawled, then stood up and ran forward, "Run!" Run towards the edge of the trees in front of you, don't run in a straight line, change your S-shaped and Z-shaped routes, and be aware of the lack of water or humid areas around you! β
The four of them ran wildly across the wasteland in the direction of the woods, stray bullets grazing their scalps, and tank fire continued, but the loaders seemed to have loaded the armor-piercing shells in the magnitude of the explosions, and the soldiers of the liberation front on the other side of the road were not fully aimed at them, and now the only threat to them was the wildfire that spread in all directions.
When they ran to the mouth of the woods, the four of them collapsed to the ground panting, each finding simple cover, even if they were a hundred meters away, there were bullets hitting the branches and the ground from time to time, Tang Shuxing had to simply lie on the ground and watch with a telescope.
The two armoured vehicles were all paralyzed, and the remaining two tanks separated, one facing forward and the other detouring from the right, trying to take out the militia of the liberation front who had attacked them, and now the only advantage of the militia in the wilderness was gradually lost due to the crushing of the tanks.
The two tanks crushed the wildfire, and the other soldiers followed, using the tanks as a cover, and continued to advance towards the positions of the liberation front.
"Damn it, it's horrible." As Tang Shuxing was talking, the machine gunner on the tank on the left was shot indiscriminately, and he was shot in the chest, neck, and head, and his body fell to one side, and a soldier behind the tank immediately jumped up, dragged his body out, and continued to fire with the machine gun himself, but was hit by a bullet again after a few tens of seconds.
Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng, who had never seen such a scene, lay there stupidly and watched, stunned by the real battlefield in front of them. What is the experience of the Gu Hunting Ground compared to the large-scale killing in front of us now? This is the battlefield, and no one knows if they will be killed by random gunfire in the next second.
"Look at this, the battle will be over soon." Ji Kefeng put down the binoculars.
"That's right." Quinn took off the folding shovel pinned to the outside of the backpack and motioned for the others to take it off as well, "There are tanks here, no matter what, there are advantages, again it's the T-54, the number of RPGs on the liberation front is not enough to destroy them at one time, but the crisis we have to face right now is not this, but the surrounding wildfires, dig a pit, everyone!" β
"Dig a pit?" Ji Kefeng asked puzzled, but saw that Gu Huaiyi had already dug up with a folding shovel.
Quinn explained while digging: "Don't underestimate the wildfires in the African wilderness, no matter how fast our legs and feet are, we can't outrun the speed of wildfires, and the only labor-saving and safe way is to dig out the underground wetlands, normally about one and a half meters of dug up." β
Ji Kefeng also dug hard and asked, "Shouldn't we just dig up the grass around us?" β
Tang Shuxing glanced at him, not refuting his face, and said in a low voice: "There is fire on all sides, the pit is shallow and small, we will not be burned to death, but will be roasted alive and smothered, you see that there are trees and half-human-high weeds all around." β
"It's close to noon, the sun is blazing, and the sun is shining down, which completely adds fuel to the fire!" Gu Huaiyi didn't want to see Ji Kefeng.
Ji Kefeng was very embarrassed, in fact, he should have thought of these things originally, but he hadn't recovered from the time when Shang Du almost fell into Yu Xin's trap.
The four of them wielded shovels and dug desperately, but the soil here was too dry, digging down about twenty centimeters was still dry soil, and after digging down for a full one and a half meters, they saw the slightly damp soil below.
When Tang Shuxing raised his head again, he found that the sea of wildfire was about to spread to him, and unfortunately, it didn't blow early or late, but at this time, gusts of wind began to blow, and when the wind blew, the wildfire burned faster and more fiercely.
"Hurry up! It's time to get there! Tang Shuxing shouted and continued to dig.
As soon as he shouted like this, the others wiped their sweat and looked over, and found that the wildfire was only about ten meters away from them, so they had to grit their teeth and desperately expand the range, at least squatting down the four of them.
"That's it! All right! Fold up your shovels and step on them and jump in! Quinn was the first to jump in, and then untied the kettle on the side of his backpack and began to pour it from his head, while pouring the back of his hand, "Water the exposed skin, don't feel sorry for the water!" β
The other three jumped down and did the same, and then everyone gathered around the center of the tunnel, looking at the small trees and shrubs that were already burning, and if they stayed outside, they would surely be burned to death immediately.
"This fate is saved!" Quinn smiled against the other three, swallowed his saliva, poured the last few drops of water from the kettle on his tongue, swallowed greedily, and then closed his eyes to recuperate, "Wait, at least an hour before there is relief around us, it will take hours to wait for these wildfires to be completely extinguished, take the opportunity to rest, we still have a long way to go." β