Chapter 11: Good Guys, Bad Guys?
After a long day of sailing, Yara reappeared in front of Shepard's eyes, but unlike last time, this time, he could sail into the port to unload his cargo generously!
With the sound of whistles, the slightly dilapidated harbor showed its full picture, and after years of civil war and blockade, this small deep-water harbor had become extremely desolate and dilapidated, with most of the buildings of the pier broken, the walls covered with moss, and many stranded ships and barnacles could be seen in the shallow waters.
The facilities in the port were also incomplete, the cranes were rusty as if dyed another color, and there were many corpses hanging on them, and the deaths were extremely miserable, apparently all of them were executed.
The Black Mermaid was the first to enter the harbor, carrying several hundred additional personnel, and was free to have the first priority.
Shepard told his men to open the hatch and began to shout wildly.
"Hurry up, get to the station, I'll be fined if I don't leave!"
Then the crooked Yarra staggered out, and the slower ones were kicked in the ass by heavily armed armed security guards, and there were already guerrillas waiting to receive them on the docks, and to Shepard's surprise, there was a bejeweled black lady inside.
"Who's that guy?"
Looking at the black lady who was talking intimately with Morgan, Shepard whispered to Smith on the side, who also answered him in a low voice.
"The boss of the Castillo family! Gabriel's widow, Yolanda Roguez! ”
Shepard reacted with a sigh, the core of the Castillo family is the former president Gabriel Castillo, he and his relatives control the top and bottom of the country, and after the uprising, Gabriel's head was hung on the street lamp, so the power of the family naturally fell into the hands of his wife.
The black noblewoman had been serving a prison sentence with her son in a labor camp for several years, only to escape from the counterattack of the guerrillas loyal to the Castieus.
At this moment, the black noblewoman is thanking the United States for its assistance and saying that once she regains power, any conditions can be negotiated.
Morgan, on the other hand, uttered a bunch of official clichés to the effect that it was to contain Russia's expansion.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Morgan nodded to Smith, and then the two of them followed Yolanda Rodriguez with a dozen personal guards and got into the military vehicle that had been waiting for a long time, preparing to return to the barracks.
Shepard naturally followed Smith, he was now dressed in a hooded jacket with a dark LBV chest strap, four pockets for the ammunition carrier with only a magazine for a rifle, the remaining three stuffed with radios and first aid items and a small water bottle, he didn't have a helmet with him, but a baseball cap, he didn't even have a rifle with him, and the only weapon was the M1911 pistol on his waist.
As for the security of other companies, most of them are dressed in this way, the climate of the Caribbean Sea is hot and humid, and heavy helmets are a big burden for security guards who do not have combat missions, so everyone basically wears either a penny hat or no helmet, and people like Smith Morgan are dressed in casual clothes.
After unloading the crew, the Black Mermaid quickly left the port and returned to the offshore shore to stand by, followed by two cargo ships laden with munitions and supplies to unload, and hundreds of Jinyara people, who had just received their weapons, were transformed into overseers, driving thousands of civilians to begin moving supplies from the ship.
As soon as the convoy left the port, it suddenly stopped, and saw that the Yarra guard in the lead car was punching a dirty old man, apparently this guy had just come out of front of the car.
"I'm sorry, we just reclaimed the city, and we haven't cleaned it up yet!"
A red-hatted Yara officer nodded embarrassedly at the American guest in the car and apologized, and then was about to get out of the car to deal with the situation.
"I'll take a look!"
Jumping out of the car and striding forward, the old man was beaten in embarrassment at the moment, covered in mud, even a few teeth were knocked out, and several soldiers wanted to do it again, but were stopped by Shepard.
"What's the situation?"
"This old man wants some money!"
Seeing the distinguished American guest, the soldier immediately answered truthfully, and then he saw Shepard suddenly burst out.
"If you want food, you deserve it too!"
Shepard kicked the broken bowl held by the old man more than ten meters away, and then grabbed the other party from the ground with a tall horse, and then threw it to the side of the road.
Several soldiers didn't know what the American master was angry about, but they didn't dare to provoke it, so they could only watch Shepard pull each other into the alley while slapping each other's mouths, listening to the old man's miserable shouts, the soldiers had already guessed the end of the old man.
Ten seconds later, Shepard, who moved his wrist, strode out of the alley, signaling the convoy to continue going, and then he jumped into the car as if nothing had happened.
Smith glanced at Shepard, who was pretending to be serious, and then showed a relieved smile, and Shepard didn't hold back when he saw the other party's smile, and laughed himself.
On the contrary, the co-pilot's officer Yara was overwhelmed by the unpredictable American guest, and he could only smile as much as possible along the way to introduce the local customs to the two.
And after the convoy left, in the alley where the conflict had just occurred, a head poked out again, it was the old man who had just been violently beaten, he first spat bloody spit at the convoy, and then retracted back into the alley, walked around quickly, and after making sure that there was no one behind him, he came to a dilapidated ruin, and got in.
"Damn, these fools, they're so ruthless!"
The old man grinned as he took out a handful of fragmentary bills from his pocket and squeezed them in his hand, and then opened the next room, where there were several heavily armed civilians and a radio on the table.
"Send a report to the command that the Americans have landed!"
"Yes, Captain!"
The operator immediately began to send information, while the others came over with a medicine box to treat the old man's injuries, and then they saw the banknotes in each other's hands.
"Where did this come from? Captain, you robbed the Americans? ”
"What a robbery, a rotten kind guy gave it!"
The old man spat again, and then remembered the fierce Shepard, who dragged him into the alley all the way and scolded him, and then kicked him in the ass to let him get out of the way, and he didn't forget to lose his money before leaving, which was funny to think about.
"That guy really thinks I'm a beggar! Come on, everyone has divided the money! ”