Chapter 80: Preparing for Action
Bright is a native of the United States, and he used to form a mercenary group with Smith and others, but later several founders had different ideas and the team broke up.
Smith quit the industry, washed his hands and went ashore to start a consulting firm. Bright, on the other hand, stayed in Africa and built his mercenary team with a group of men.
Because all the members of his mercenary team have a parrot tattooed on their bodies, their team is known as the Parrot Corps in the industry.
As the boss of the Corps, Bright also received the nickname "Blood Parrot".
When Smith found him, he was in a country in central Africa with his men to help a powerful chieftain in the war.
Some of the more developed parts of Africa are more prosperous, but more often there is chaos, and wars and even genocides are not uncommon.
In some places, there will be peacekeeping troops, but many more places will be forgotten by the outside world, consciously or unconsciously.
Those places became a paradise for mercenaries.
This time, Bright was hired by an oil company in a large Western country to help that chief compete with another for a territory of several hundred square kilometers.
Behind the other chieftain was the oil company of the Western powers, and also brought in well-armed mercenaries to join the war.
Because that piece of land found a relatively rich reserve of oil.
Oil, that's a good thing, a better thing than iron ore, deserves a proxy war.
Although the two Western powers are good allies, there is nothing to prevent their companies from waging a proxy war on the soil of this small country in Africa.
After all, the benefits are real.
And such proxy wars often occur in this land of Africa.
Weak countries are sometimes so helpless, without resources, they will be very poor, and they will live very miserably. With resources, without the ability to protect them, it will only attract competition from outsiders, which will lead to wars and make life even worse.
Just a proxy war waged by two big Western corporations can plunge a country into chaos.
"Go to country T, fight the Huaxia people, are you crazy? The current Huaxia is not the Huaxia of more than ten years ago, and I can't bear to anger them. β
When Bright heard Smith say what he meant, he immediately refused.
"It's just that the Chinese people have investments there, private businesses, and they have nothing to do with their government. Smith flickered, "And that's a company owned by overseas Chinese in China." β
Bright still shook his head: "It doesn't matter if he is a real Chinese or not, it's not good to get into trouble." β
But he soon changed his mind, because Smith offered him a payout:
"Fifty million dollars! As long as you destroy their mines and docks and destroy their equipment, fifty million dollars will be yours! Bright, you won't be so scared by the Huaxia people that you don't even dare to make money, right? You know, you're a Chinese man!"
Fifty million dollars is not a small amount of money anywhere, Bright's eyes lit up, and he said, "I won't be afraid of them! Give me their information, and I will think about it." β
But he also made his request: "But I want to tell you, it's okay to destroy, but it's not okay to kill." Now Huaxia is a bit big, and the people who kill them will be in great trouble in the future. β
"Of course," Smith said, "all my client needs is to make that mine unsuccessful, not to kill the Chinese." Everyone knows that the current Chinese people are not easy to mess with. β
But in his heart, he thought, "When you pass, it is impossible not to kill people." β
As long as the two sides see blood and the hatred is great, and he doesn't need to pay in the future, Bright will take the initiative to find trouble with those Chinese people.
In Bright's imagination, the national defense of country T is useless, and it is very simple to enter there to do things, just destroy the equipment of a Chinese company and throw more explosives, which is really nothing.
After getting Smith's information, he flipped through it and called one of his subordinates: "Hey, John, you take these things and take a good look at them, and bring a hundred or so people over to take care of things for me, remember to take pictures." β
Then he said to Smith, "Fifty million dollars, I'll send you the picture when it's done, and you give me the money right away." Otherwise, hey, I'm not going to be polite. β
Smith wanted to say that it was impossible for a hundred people to do things, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say itβwhat if he told the power of the Huaxia people and scared Bright? It was better to let Bright do it first.
He smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's only 50 million dollars, I won't miss you." β
John is Bright's left arm and right-hand man, a battle-hardened veteran with a wealth of combat experience.
Sending John over, Bright thinks he has taken this operation very seriously, and he doesn't think that T country can stop their existence.
"Bring those newly recruited," Bright said to John, "and those guys should get their hands on it, too!"
There will be attrition in the war, and his parrot corps will often be replenished, many of them local blacks in Africa - which will also allow them to better integrate into the land.
Of course, those backbones are still made up of white people, and those blacks are nothing more than cheap cannon fodder in their eyes.
Bright asked John to bring those newly recruited blacks over to carry out this operation, on the one hand, to train the soldiers, and on the other hand, because the blacks are better to blend into country T, if a bunch of whites enter the country, it will probably cause onlookers.
There is another meaning - if something happens, you can also dump the blame on the Africans.
Those newly recruited are not counting the official members of their parrot corps, they don't even have parrot sashimi, even a few people died there, and the Huaxia people can't imagine that he did it, so it will save a lot of trouble.
When John singled out hundreds of blacks to leave, Bright told him a few more words - if you can't kill the Chinese, don't kill them, don't kill them, and don't leave evidence for others to find the parrot corps.
John carefully studied the information given to him by Smith, determined his goal, and set out with the men.
In late January, they came to the territory of country T and decided to divide their troops into two routes, one to the mine and the other to the port.
They made an appointment, and both sides started at the same time.
On the port side, John personally led the team.
I have to say that the country of T is too poor, and the road conditions in the territory are so poor that it took three days for John and his group to arrive near the port of country T.
After contacting another team via satellite phone, and learning that the team had also arrived near the mine, John gave the order: at midnight, the operation officially began.