Chapter 104: This is the heavyweight!
Although they lost everything, but in general, many European companies in Katanga Province were lucky, after they handed over the mines and facilities under their control, they were taken to their camp by the Shadow Company, and then escorted to the docks, at least they could take their personal belongings, even if they had cash, they could also take them together, everyone tried their best to stuff things into their boxes, the whole evacuation operation took six days to transport people to the port alone, about 400 people and their families and several times the luggage were sent out, And before leaving, they really didn't forget to say thank you to Shepard.
However, although they scraped together more than a million yuan to buy roads, in general, these people are much luckier than their colleagues in the next province, they have food and drink, and they can go home, at most they have lost their jobs, and the big brothers in the next province have left with their things, even if they want to, they can't run.
After several purges of Mobutu's army, the number of officers with foreign surnames like Senerio has been pitiful, and more of them are relatives of the Mobutu family, these people rely on their own backstage hard, and directly detain many European workers who tried to leave.
As for the international outlook, as long as Mobutu is firmly holding the thighs of the Americans, then Europe will have nothing to do with Mobutu, and it is not until a few months later that everyone finds out that the few multinational companies that the United States has left in the DRC are all right, and then everyone reacts.
They're all in this together!
But what can old Europe do, Britain still expects the United States' nuclear forces to protect Britain, and can only comfort its own people, this is all for freedom, but the French don't eat this, they plan to teach Mobutu a good lesson, and even they have decided on the candidates, the mercenary group led by Bob Denar is the best candidate for intervention, and even Bob Denard and Mobutu have a personal enmity, but the latter is accepting the Portuguese in Angola to clear out the resistance to the guerrillas, and has no time to care about anything else.
If Mobutu can really take advantage of the huge wealth brought by more than 2,000 foreign capital, coupled with the rich natural resources of the DRC, then maybe over time, the DRC can really develop very well, but it is a pity that most of the great men who really think about the people have fallen in advance, after all, in this land, there will be no real fighters!
However, the turmoil outside could not blow in Katanga Province at all, after Mobutu nationalized many mines, the work of the Shadow Company was only left with the task of guarding Standard Oil, and even Shepard was considering whether to continue to give his subordinates a holiday, and then, the master tactician from the extraterrestrial kingdom finally arrived!
It took three months for the first batch of American instructors and supplies to float across the Atlantic Ocean and arrive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As a contractor, Shepard naturally went to Kinshasa to meet with the person in charge, and was also given the assignment of the Shadow Company, and they were to train two infantry battalions for the Katanga Provincial Garrison within a year.
"An infantry battalion with full American-style equipment?"
"No, the simpler kind!"
Colonel Kent, who came from the reserves, scratched his bare head and explained to Shepard with a sad expression.
"It's impossible to expect these guys to replicate the formation of the Army, Congress didn't approve those things!"
"Then you mean, an infantry battalion with only a rifle and mortar company?"
"Mortars don't either!"
"Four rifle companies?"
Colonel Kent nodded, then said.
"That president did not allow the artillery to be decentralized, and it could only be managed by his guards in Kinshasa, so your job is very simple, it is eight rifle companies!"
"It's not that simple, a considerable number of those soldiers don't even know how to shoot at three points and one line, they haven't even received shooting training, there is almost no weapon maintenance, and even the officers can't read the map, and the order to attack will only be given to me!"
"Young man, do you think our work is easy? I'm going to teach these guys how to repair armored vehicles, and I'm going to teach them how to operate artillery, and since the above has given me a task, I think it's better to do it unconditionally! ”
The colonel sighed helplessly, the shadow company did this, at least there was money to get it, he was kicked by the country purely because he didn't have any backstage, and the thought of staying here for a year made the colonel only feel that his head was big.
"And what about the equipment, when will the equipment pass?"
"Just this month, I don't know what you're doing here, but I thought, since the CIA says you can, then I'll assume that you can, and I'll check it out in a few months, so don't let me down?"
"Yes, Colonel, don't worry! I'll start as soon as things arrive! ”
Shepard nodded, then took his leave.
Due to poor infrastructure, it took two weeks for the infantry equipment to be delivered to Shepard by train.
"Well, new, you're welcome Uncle Sam!"
Since the old man of the Congress is not polite, then Shepard is even more polite, the Shadow Company itself has almost two hundred M16 rifles that have been used for more than a year, and this time they are all replaced with new ones, as for the old ones, then they should be issued as new ones to Uncle Black, anyway, the old guns have been maintained, and the Black Uncles can't see it just by looking at their appearance.
And it turned out that Shepard was not right, and even misjudged to a certain extent, because when the new guns were sent to the Wehrmacht barracks, Senerio didn't even plan to send these guns down, he secretly found Shepard, and wanted to dump these weapons to the Soviet guerrillas in Angola!
“???”
Shepard thought that he was good enough to do this, but he didn't expect that there was a braver guy than him.
"Why don't you want to live anymore and sell them a gun?"
"But the price they give is high, don't you know, those guys don't need money to buy weapons, they're paying with diamonds!"
"Diamonds?"
Shepard suddenly felt that his breath was stagnant, and he had to admit that he was also a little excited!
"No, no, no, at least this batch can't work, you listen to me, there is still something to come, we are not in a hurry for this time!"
"But there's a hurry!"
Senerio hurriedly explained.
"In that case, the Belgians still have a batch of old guns with me, you can help me get it, and we will get the profits!"
Shepard still wants to use it for himself, but now, what else is there to do, of course, it is to support the anti-colonial struggle of the Angolan people!