Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Boy Scouts
"They were orphans left behind in a Karen riot, adopted by the KNU, or the Karen National Armed League, to join the local boy revenge camp, brainwashed, trained in paramilitarization, and served as the eyeliner of anti-government forces in various regions......
"People's flesh bombs, murderers, kidnappers, arsons, they do everything, no one will guard against children."
"Wait! Isn't the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child banning minors from participating in war!? Xia Min frowned, he came out of the People's Liberation Army Military Academy, which was so well-disciplined that he had no friends, and he hated this kind of thing the most.
"Sir, this is the Golden Triangle, and these things don't work here," the interpreter continued, giving him a strange look.
“…… An encirclement and suppression by the Burmese army resulted in the death and wounding of the high-level KNU cadres who managed it. ”
"Louis and John led more than a dozen boy scouts, evaded the encirclement and suppression of the government army, entrenched in the area of the state, and fought with the drug lord Tusi armed anti-government army, and formed the Jesus Worship Army."
"In its heyday, there were more than 300 people in the Jesus-worshipping army, rifles, artillery grenades, and all the equipment, and the two brothers were called the devils of hell!"
"At that time, my brother Louis was 7 years old and my brother John was 6 years old."
The two of them took a breath at the same time, six or seven years old, what are they doing, just in elementary school?!
"They have kidnapped hospitals, more than 500 patients, demanded an exchange for an anti-government leader who had been detained, bombed embassies, and fought with the Coalition ......"
"The reputation of that year was no less than that of the number one drug lord in Asia now, one of the twelve big drug lords in the world, and the US Department of Defense offered a reward of two million Wei Gang!"
"Where are they now?"
"After a failed armed campaign, they were besieged by us, and finally a dozen men surrendered with guns raised, and the two brothers are now in a small village near Bangkok."
"Do a plane today, and you can arrive that night."
"You're here to tell us this?" Tang Long raised his eyebrows, "Do others know?" ”
"Limited to a few people."
"I don't understand!"
The translator smiled, put the two boxes he had brought on the table, and opened them one by one, just like the scene in the movie, green dollar bills.
"It's a million dollars in total, and Commander Prayut hopes that the two of them are within his authority and can do him a small favor."
"A year ago, a drug trafficking force in the Golden Triangle attacked our garrison in Dan Yinhe, taking not only a large amount of ordnance, but also the personal belongings of our generals, and due to the tension between Thailand and Myanmar, our army could not fight deep into the territory."
"And the mercenaries who just killed the leader of Sahela also have their hands and feet, which is really brutal!"
"I hope that in the next peacekeeping operation, the two of them can fight off the robbers and take back what belongs to us."
'Didi, Didi, Didi-'
'Task 2, eliminate the two militarized camp changes-
The Commander's Treasure: The Fuxing Army, the most powerful large-scale drug trafficking force in the Golden Triangle recently, the leader is the nephew of the drug king Kun Sha in the early seventies, Zhang Lifu, united the remnants of the Mengtai Army that year, ambitious and radical.
Get back the commander's safe, success: 1,000 q coins, and the relationship with the Thai ** side is friendly
Failure: After deducting 500 Q Coins, the relationship with the military turns into hatred
"Why us?"
"Because the performance of the two, especially Your Excellency, through the soldier's report, reached the commander's ears, so that this operation seems to be possible." The interpreter looked at Officer Xia and explained.
"We've got it!!" Xia Min said simply, the figure of the dead little girl flashed in his heart, grinding his teeth, and a fierce light flashed in his eyes, soldiers, you shouldn't do anything to the old and weak women and children, this is an iron rule!!
"However, we don't want this money, I want to exchange some weapons with you, heavy weapons!!"
"Hey, I said Boss Xia, you should keep a little, I'm almost poor as pants!" Tang Long watched the translator disappear from sight with two cash boxes in his eyes, there was always an urge to rob the rich and help the poor, and he blamed it on the general nature of those who practiced martial arts.
'Didi, Didi, Didi-'
'You exchanged 1,500 war tickets for the 3rd Military Region for 1,000 dollars'
"Gone! Go find those two brothers first, and then change weapons! Xia Min made the final decision.
On the plane, Tang Long looked out the window with great interest, under the clouds were shrunken temples and pagodas, as well as long strange tropical trees, large areas of plantain conifers with strange trees with football-like leaves, curved like snake-like trees, standard Southeast Asian scenery.
The military plane stopped at the airport, and the two followed the guide sent by the translator to get into the car that had been prepared, and many of the women walking outside were dressed in gauze, and the men were generally short, with dark and thick skin, as for the appearance of Bangkok, except for some pagodas, it was not much different from some large cities in China, after all, they were all modernized.
"Two gentlemen, I'll ask for directions," a man in makeup nodded politely in the opposite seat and opened the door.
"Dead shemale!" Officer Xia said dissatisfiedly, the previous translator, whose real identity is the commander's adjutant, is proficient in 12 languages, of course, it is impossible to follow the two all the way, so he sent this Thai specialty.
"Don't underestimate him," Tang Long leaned back in his chair with sunglasses, seemed to be asleep, and made a voice from between his teeth: "It should be someone from the Intelligence Bureau." ”
"You know again?"
"Nonsense, I stared at him all the way, this guy named Pa Song has at least two listening devices and a pinhole camera on his body, not to engage in intelligence, is he playing photography?" Tang Long pretended to stretch and yawned: "This is one of the benefits of wearing sunglasses, blocking your view and no one knows what you are looking at." ”
"Ahh Mr. Tang woke up, and in another hour, we drove to our destination. ”
"I'm sorry for you."
The three of them soon arrived at a small town near Bangkok, which was obviously much more peaceful than the fighting on the border, with bamboo houses and bamboo buildings, patches of crops, one or two mother and child elephants walking slowly, villagers dressed in unique national costumes, living people, bending over with hands together, and children like mud monkeys.
An old man with the status of the village head, with a shaved head and a cane, had already received a notice and waited in the field, constantly talking with Pa Song, the ladyboy translator-
"In the next mission, you must exchange for a local language proficiency, otherwise it will be too passive," Xia Min frowned.
"Understood."
The old man said that the two brothers were placed in a wooden building at the farthest distance, and the villagers did not dare to communicate with them and live with them, fearing them, and only the subordinates of the year would come to see them from time to time.
"They live with their mother now."
"Wait! Are they not war orphans? ”
"It's not all like that, his father died under the guns of the Burmese army, and his mother decided to send them to the barracks to fight for the nation."
The four of them soon saw this typical Karen woman, whose neck was strangely elongated because of the dense layers of gold rings, and a mouthful of black teeth, which should have been caused by smoking a lot of cigarettes, and listened to their intentions, especially when the ladyboy translator took out the documents, he quickly nodded in agreement, with a sad and indignant face.
"Is this woman in her right mind? How can anyone send his own son to war? Not far away, Tang Long asked puzzledly.
"Then how do you explain the black widow in Chechnya, a female soldier of a terrorist organization?" Officer Xia didn't have a good face all the way: "War will destroy human nature!" ”
Louis and John are now at the top of the hill, playing on the volleyball court, which their soldiers built for them, she said. Pasong walked over and said.
"Let's go check it out."
At the top of the mountain, more than a dozen children were playing, the eldest was sixteen or seventeen years old, and the younger one was five or six years old, all dressed in simple clothes, without shoes, tanned, Tang Long noticed that there was also a girl with a ponytail, very delicate and cute, is it a shy smile, if it is in China, it should be a character who makes the girl who is overflowing with sympathy hold her face and rub her face, commonly known as the killer of the grandmother.
"Louis To, John To!"
Two children ran over, one was a bald black boy, and the other was the little 'girl' just now.
"Man!?"
"Kid!?"
The two of them looked at the shemale translator almost at the same time, how old were they!!
"As you said, the two brothers have been trained in militarization since childhood, and at the age of six or seven they became the leader of a mercenary army, and they are veterans of battle! The devil in hell!! Xia Min almost shouted: "I want a warrior!" Not a schoolboy!! ”
"It's been a year since they were arrested, Louis is now 8 years old and John is 7 years old."
"No, we can't fight with children at the same time!"
"Sir, sir, they have fought no less than you, and they will be your good helpers." The ladyboy translator's face turned red in a hurry, and he hurriedly grabbed Officer Xia, who was about to leave.
When the two of their parents, the middle-aged Karen woman, told the story, the eyes of the two ordinary children instantly brightened, as if they saw some fun toy, and the younger brother John was about to speak, but was stopped by Louis, and the black boy spoke in Thai.
"They said they would like to help you fight, but you should help them rescue their subordinates, and this is the reward. ”
"Pay back, if my daughter dares to say that, it would be good not to beat her up!" Xia Min laughed angrily.
"The war made their brothers, and no one is more familiar with the situation in the Golden Triangle than they are."
"I disagree!"
"Boss Xia, you seem to be putting yourself too much in the role of their parents, right?" Tang Long, who had been watching coldly, suddenly opened his mouth.
"What do you mean?" Xia Min frowned, he had been cooperating with a tacit partner, and for the first time, there was a disagreement.
"I mean, they're not in your hands, you have to give them a choice."
"Let minors fight?!"
"Anything that helps the mission should be accepted if they want to, shouldn't we?"
"Do you have any morals?"
"My moral concept is to always give people a chance to choose, and this is called freedom!"
(Thank you for the big reward of the fallen life, and there will be a more in the afternoon)