Chapter 752: Antarah
Lin Rui strode out of the checkpoint and threw the car keys in his hand to Jason and the others. "Go drive, and check if the equipment is still there. ”
"What do you do with these guys?" Wang Haoze stepped on a border guard soldier who had passed out on the ground.
"There's no need to deal with it, they don't dare to report it to the top, otherwise it will expose their robbery and corruption. So there is no need to worry about our whereabouts being exposed. Lin Rui looked down at the time, "We are almost an hour later than the scheduled time, and there is no time to delay any longer." Tell everyone to get ready and go. ”
"It's so cheap, bastards. Wang Haoze said angrily.
"There are people like this everywhere, and we don't need to do things too much. After all, we will still have to do business in this place in the future. It also depends on the owner to beat the dog. Shogishi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Alright, we can go." ”
Soon four armed pickup trucks drove out, and the corresponding equipment was still there, after all, they had just been confiscated by these people, and they had not had time to deal with it. If Lin Rui and the others had come a day late, these weapons might have been sold.
The truck sped through the night, and the journey was full of bumps. Lin Rui checked the weapon in his hand and connected to Cobain's communication channel again, "Action code name Death's Heart, I am Lin Rui, action identification code 17548AD." ”
"I can hear you. How's that the trouble you're having solved?" Coppen asked.
"It's settled, but it wasted nearly twenty minutes. Lin Rui said slowly, "We have to speed up now." Without being able to reach our hideout in Chad late at night, it's hard to avoid Jonniroton's eyeliner. Marching in the daylight is too dangerous for such a covert mission. ”
"I understand, but it's too late. I'm following your signals that you're in Chad. Cobain frowned, "You're fast enough." ”
"We'd better be able to catch up with the panther Guray's airdropped anti-tank equipment. This allows us to take the equipment into the car and then rush to the hiding place, which can somewhat avoid the risk of exposure to the equipment. Lin Rui replied.
"Alright, I can send your location to the Black Panther Guray and ask him to arrange a location for the helicopter drop. But Lin Rui, don't be too anxious. Johnny Roton wasn't very easy to deal with. The Chadian army has organized several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate him, so you had better be careful. Cobain replied.
"Thank you. Lin Rui turned off the communication, and then turned to Wang Haoze, "Go according to the predetermined plan, we will quickly rush to the hiding location." If we can receive the equipment dropped by the Black Panther on the way, then our efforts today will not be in vain. ”
"Still, I'm a little worried, will our hiding place be able to hide from those strong Nirodon's eyes, he's cruel, but he's pretty good to his own people, at least he's fed many people in this barren region with looting and looting, so the whole region regards him as a hero, and sees him as a modern-day Robin Hood, and voluntarily serves as his eyeliner.
He received the news in advance of several previous encirclement and suppression operations by the government army, and then slipped away. I was afraid that we would be so careful, but in the end it still disturbed him. Shogishi frowned.
"Rest assured, the place we are going to is an Antarah ghet, which is said to be almost entirely populated by mercenaries, warlords and extremists, and speculative businessmen. Not a single good person, and very messy. There were skirmishes on both sides for three days, and most of the people in that place were supporters of government forces and did not have a good opinion of Johnny Roton. Lincoln replied.
"How do you know?" Lin Rui turned his head and asked him.
"I served in the direct reconnaissance company of the Marine Corps, a real vanguard. Engage in reconnaissance, intelligence, and assassination. Who do you think were the air targets in the Libyan war? Without a ground reconnaissance force, satellites alone could find out who was in the room?" Lincoln shrugged. "At that time, we were mainly operating in this area, and we often mingled in such places, so I may be more familiar with the Antarah settlement you are talking about than you. ”
"Great, we need you to be so familiar. Lin Rui nodded. "What the hell is going on there?"
"It should be as chaotic as ever, and the reason why that place has become a ghetto is entirely because of the illegal arms trade. During the Pickup War, Chad received a large amount of French aid weapons, which were then freely traded there! The authorities had no control over it, because in many cases it was they themselves who were doing it.
So later, the market was simply opened, and everyone could trade and buy and sell freely there. There are all kinds of arms deals, and there are also mercenaries who find employers to take over business. Because this country is one of the least developed countries in the world, it is so poor that it is not easy to have such a place to eat.
And Johnny Roton, naturally, is not a fool, several times he tried to annex that area, but was repulsed. Because the people of Antarah are staunch supporters of the government army, they themselves are a local armed force, and they are backed by the government army. So I have a lot of confidence and dare to do it with Jonniro. Lincoln replied.
"Sounds interesting. Lin Rui frowned. "By the way, what's the pickup war you talking about?"
The Pickup War, also known as the Toyota War, is the name given to the historians who took place in the final stages of the armed conflict between Chad and Libya in 1987 in northern Chad and on the border with Chali. It got its name because the Chadian army used Toyota's pickup trucks to increase its mobility against the Libyan army. Shogishi said with a smile.
"That's right, it's in this region that once staged a miracle of modern warfare that stunned the whole world. Chad's troops were so poor that they had no tanks, only pickup trucks loaded with machine guns and went to war. Colonel Gaddafi on the other side had a lot of money and had tanks and planes. It is a pity that the side, which had aircraft and tanks, was completely defeated.
At the Fada base in Chad, 400 small armed pickup trucks chased and intercepted and destroyed more than 100 tanks of Colonel Gaddafi. 784 enemy armored brigades were annihilated, and only 50 of them died.
It didn't take long for the four hundred pick-up trucks to raid Mr. Colonel's airfield, the most important air base in Libya, Maatan Bishla. Twenty-six Su-22s, MiG-21s, MiG-23s and Mirages were destroyed, and two Mi-14 helicopters were shot down while trying to take off.
For a time, public opinion was in an uproar, and it was called a legend in military history. Because the protagonist of that war was the Japanese-made Toyota pickup truck, that war was also called the pickup war or the Toyota war. Lincoln laughed.
"There is still such a legend?" Lin Rui said with a wry smile.
"In fact, it is mainly due to the individual anti-tank missiles provided by the French to Chad, coupled with the flexibility of the trucks, which caused this somewhat exaggerated ending. "So Antarach became a famous underground black market." ”