In the weeks since the Battle of the Tavern, mercenaries and Shadow Company have fought more than 20 times in Lubumbashi’s bars, restaurants, and even in parks and roads outside the city. Both sides have engaged in platoon-level battles. The troops conducted intense interactive exchanges.
Among them, the Shadow Company was chased and beaten dozens of times due to its small number of people. The mercenaries were beaten six times by the Shadow Company's concentrated superior force. The two sides drew three times. They were driven away by the police and the National Defense Force twice because of fights. Although the mercenaries lost more than they won. There are few, but from the perspective of losses, Shadow Company has the advantage. After all, not everyone has full protection every time they fight. After these dozen conflicts, only a dozen people from Shadow Company have been admitted to the hospital. After a month, everyone has recovered. He is a good man, but the situation among mercenaries is relatively miserable, at least twice as bad as that of Shadow Company, and this does not include those who were beaten with bruises and swollen faces.
The conflict between the two sides is still at a very high frequency. To be precise, as long as they take turns to enter the city, it is impossible not to have a fight. Even Shepard secretly ran to have a fight. They blocked There were a few mercenaries who didn't run away, and while Shepard was calling his men to take action, he huddled in the crowd and kicked the opponent's ass with his boots crazily. From the twisted expression of the unlucky guy, Shepard could guess that He may have broken his hemorrhoids by kicking himself, but it was really cool!
It's like RB's hot-blooded high school. Although everyone knows that the group fight there is not in line with the positive energy orientation, it is really cool, especially the feeling of kicking the ass! It's simply too addictive.
However, the fight cannot continue. After all, Lubumbashi is a city. Although it is not big, it is still the face of Katanga Province. Every year, many well-fed tourists come here to browse. African style, but when everyone came to Africa, they didn't see it. Instead, they saw two waves of mercenaries fighting. And most importantly, these guys broke things and refused to pay for it. This made Senerio really unbearable.
As a last resort, he could only try to reconcile the conflicts between the two parties in the play.
The first thing he looked for was Shepard, after all, the latter acted very reasonable to him.
So the colonel held a banquet at his home again and invited Shepard to come over for dinner.
And after Shepard ate three portions of foie gras, four pieces of lamb chops, and half a grilled fish by the way, he left with the answer that he would consider it, so the helpless Senerio had no choice but to go find him again. Francois, who also had no good feelings for him, found that Senerio, who neither side wanted to pay attention to, had nothing to do. After all, he could not offend both sides, but the conflict between the two sides caused extremely bad things in Lubumbashi. Influence.
As a last resort, he could only use his trump card.
So the old World War II French wheeled armored vehicle in the warehouse was driven out by the soldier. Because the weapons on the turret had been sold, he could only have someone insert a wooden stick on it and then paint it to make it look more attractive.
Then came the National Defense Forces holding wooden shields. Senerio directly sent one of his battalions to garrison the bar street. Faced with such a disgraceful scene, the number of guests coming to the bar street to relax dropped sharply. Whether they were workers from foreign-funded companies, It's the local people. In fact, everyone is quite happy to watch a group of mercenaries fighting, and even the smart ones have already opened the market to collect deposits.
But now, as soon as the army comes, everyone has no fun. The mercenaries don't want to cause any conflicts with the army, so they can only regretfully move the battlefield.
After that, people rarely sent out personnel to fight each other. Instead, they included but were not limited to setting up checkpoints on the other side's roads, or poking tire valve cores. Although the number and intensity of conflicts decreased, but The painful tug-of-war also began.
First, mercenaries set up checkpoints on the highway, which the other party had no problem with. When the Congolese government sold the mines, it sold a little more, and even bought the management rights to the land. Therefore, the mercenaries It is completely normal to set up checkpoints on the territory of the mining company they are responsible for.
However, it will be very uncomfortable for the convoys run by the Shadow Company to pass through these places. Although it is not yet at the level of firing, pushing and insulting are also necessary. The Standard Oil convoy was blocked at the checkpoint. It took several hours for him to let him go. He was so angry that he wanted to go find Francois with a shotgun. What does your feud with Shepard have to do with us?
And Shepard also retaliated. The other party set up a road block to block the convoy, so he set up a block on the oil pipeline to prevent the other party's convoy from entering the dock just a short distance away. Don't ask, if you ask, someone will explode the pipeline. We are conducting a martial law search. If you want to pass, please let us inspect the goods!
Moreover, Shepard even asked his subordinates to run up and down the wolfdog that was usually used to look after the home and had no scent training at all. Standard Oil even thought that there was something wrong with the pipeline, let alone the fleet. The driver is gone.
In addition to setting up the card, Shepard had nothing to do and drove the front of the car that was almost scrapped to Francois's checkpoint. Then the car directly blocked the checkpoint passage due to various coincidental reasons. Not only them, but also Even Francois's own car couldn't move, and it would take hours for those heavy-duty flatbed trucks to turn around, let alone drive away.
The confrontation between the two sides began to gradually affect the companies served by both parties. Especially when a French company's truck was blocked on the road for two days after being attacked from both sides. The company representatives finally gathered together.
"Either you go apologize to me and cease the war immediately, or we terminate the contract!"
The furious French united and blocked Francois' door, and Standard Oil and BHP also came to find Shepard, but they were much more polite than the French. Both Donner and Jean Reso There he carefully coaxed Shepard.
"The French have no quality, and we can't imitate them!"
"Then I don't want to. Look, from before to now, which one of us has not passively fought back? And Mr. Downer, we are fighting for you, but now you ask me to surrender?"
"This, after all, this is for survival, right?"
Tang Na was quite embarrassed. He touched the sweat on his head and then said in a very embarrassed tone.
"After all, we can only get money when we deliver goods, and only when we get money can we give you commissions. So, all of this is for survival!"
"Well, if he withdraws, I will withdraw, but let me tell you, those people will not give up!"
"I know, but again, it's all about survival!"
