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The corridor was filled with fierce black militiamen with Kalashnikov's yellow-orange bullet chains, looking like angry chimpanzees, leaning their guns slightly on their waists, waiting for Victor to arrive. The dark hallway was filled with a peculiar smell of cigarettes and poppies, and Victor had to cover his nose and walk quickly past them. Simply ignore the vicious eyes of those rude militiamen.

In Africa, it is very common for child soldiers or other militias to be provided with co-ca-in or hai-lo-in to increase their combat effectiveness or to control them. The officers of the army declared to them that after taking these powders with the power of sorcery, they would become invulnerable, and that the enemy's bullets would not penetrate your body, but you could easily break the opponent's will to fight.

Of course, this shoddy lie also caused heavy casualties during the African war, and they rushed towards the enemy like the Japanese army's Banzai charge, the difference is that the Japanese army has no way to retreat, while the African militia is desperate to launch a charge in a good situation, braving the enemy's artillery fire. Every war was a Pyrrhian victory, and countless corpses laid the foundations for the rule of despicable politicians.

At the end of the staircase is a small room, in which the warlord Aideed, who controls Mogadishu, does not appear, but sits in this dark and dilapidated room, his senior aide and spokesman, Mohami Ami? Hassan? Ava, he motioned for Victor to sit down.

When Victor sat down, he placed the briefcase at his feet. He looked up at the black man in the white shirt in front of him. I don't know why there is a special black and white sense of joy.

Ava said to Victor. "I heard that Mr. Victor is going to provide us with a shipment of arms recently? Or a special gift? President Aideed is very interested in the weapons that our friends have provided, so I hope this is a pleasant deal. ”

After saying that, he also glanced at the briefcase beside Victor, which was a database of secret transactions that had been circulating among the major warlords.

"Of course you'll be interested, the weapon we're providing this time is a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile." Victor snapped his fingers, and the Russian armed men behind him lifted up a military green wooden box, and after opening the wooden box, the dark green missile launcher and warhead appeared in front of Ava.

The other party involuntarily took off his sunglasses. I was a little surprised to see that this was a bit of a "sci-fi" weapon for them, after all, in Africa, the most they could see was RPGs and other rocket launchers.

"The SAM-16, also known as the Needle SAM, is a portable short-range low-altitude anti-aircraft missile system designed primarily against low-altitude aircraft and hovering helicopters. In 1981, it was equipped with Soviet troops. The first time it participated in actual combat was in the 1991 Gulf War, when it was shot down by eight survivable A-10 attack planes and four AV-8B vertical take-off and landing fighters. Even American fighter jets can shoot down, and even other helicopters are no problem. ”

Victor patted the launcher of the anti-aircraft missile and said confidently. "This weapon is simple and reliable. It only needs to be operated on the spot to be able to get started, and it can be said that there is nothing more suitable for the anti-aircraft weapons of the ground armed forces in Somalia than the SAM-16 anti-aircraft missile. ”

"Very nice weapon, I like it very much." Ava stroked this cold big killer and shook her head with some regret, "But this has no effect on our army, it is better to have a mortar, anti-aircraft weapons?" Our enemy has only pickup trucks and armored vehicles, and with RPGs it is enough. ”

Of course, Ava would not have known that in two months they would not be facing Pakistani peacekeepers, but real American troops, Rangers and Delta Special Forces.

"I got a piece of information from my boss that the Americans would send troops to Somalia to deal with your president, Aideed." Victor sighed deliberately and said, "You ambushed the UN troops and killed them. It has now sparked public outrage in the United States. They see the actions of your Somali Joint Assembly as a challenge to the status of the United Nations. This time CIA agents, the U.S. military and U.S. special forces will all get involved, you go and ask Aideed if he's ready? ”

Victor also continued to say lightly, "The last person who was so fortunate to be cared for by the United States is now almost no longer in control of his own country." President Aideed is not the ruler of Somalia in the truest sense of the word, and you would think that Aideed would be much luckier than the president of a country with the 'fourth army in the world'. ”

Victor's serious threat forced Ava to re-examine his considerations, he didn't know where the gap between Somalia and the Americans was, but he knew that the world's fourth largest army was vulnerable to the United States, let alone an illiterate militia.

The reason why Ava was able to become Aideed's diplomatic spokesman was largely because he received Western higher education, which is a very rare professional talent in Somalia, a place with a low level of education, so he naturally became an important arm of Aideed.

Apparently people with higher education have a deeper view of certain issues, which is why he has a sense of crisis in response to Victor's words.

"The U.S. side is likely to send helicopter gunships, attack planes or gunboats. It can be said that these weapons are specially prepared and designed for the Americans, and if the American army attacks Mogadishu, you should know what to do, right? Victor made an explosive gesture to signal that he could use these needle missiles to shoot down all the American planes, when in fact the needle missiles could indeed shoot down attack planes, as long as they were not equipped with infrared jamming systems.

The ease of operation of the SAM-16 anti-aircraft missile also made it very easy for these blacks to get started, as opposed to a group of illiterate militants with Stinger missiles in Afghanistan who were overwhelmed by helicopters and fighter jets whizzing by.

"This time the offer is the same as before, a bag of diamonds, five SAM missile launchers, ten warheads." Victor walked over to the curtain, lifted it, and said to the big truck below, "The rest of the launchers are on board, the same brand new weapon as the one you saw." ”

"That's a bit expensive. There is no problem with closing the deal, but I hope you will be able to meet our new friends before the transaction is completed. Ava turned her head sideways and shouted out the door, and from the same door came a black man of some size, and a guy in camouflage uniform beside him.

Victor first noticed the emblem on his shoulder, which was a symbol of mercenaries from a South African military company. Unlike the Soviet Union, which had just infiltrated Africa, South Africa had been operating in Africa since the sixties, and if it were not for the sanctions on nuclear weapons, Soviet military companies would not have been able to compete with them. Now, the Soviet Union, which had robbed South Africa of its original interests, naturally became the object of their suppression.

"Looks like you're planning to collude with the Boers?" Seeing the mercenaries in South Africa, Victor had a feeling of unease, he had a hunch that this meeting was completely a conspiracy, although he didn't know where Ava's real purpose was, but Victor obviously felt that this deal did not end so simply.

"We don't just have one partner in your Russian military company right now, the South African resource cooperative obviously wants to do business with me, and they're offering a much lower price than yours. The question now is, who should I choose to work with? Ava glanced around at Victor and the Boer in front of him, ready to give the two men a chance to elaborate and speak. (To be continued.) )