Although everyone had a tacit understanding to demarcate the combat area in BHP's valley camp, due to personnel transfers and business cooperation, there were almost no conflicts between the two parties in the month after the negotiations.
But this does not mean that everyone has figured it out and is about to cease the war. On the contrary, the mercenaries and the Shadow Company are gathering strength little by little. Francois set up an operational base in a village thirty kilometers away outside the river valley. , the Fabian mercenaries drove away all the civilians in the village, and then used the vacated houses as medical stations, ammunition depots and headquarters.
The three Schneider 1922 75mm artillery pieces at the bottom of the box were also dragged out. The background of these guns is not small. A few years ago, when French mercenary leader Bob Denard tried to overthrow Congolese President Mobutu. These three cannons were a major contributor to Bob Denard's fight against the government forces. Unfortunately, in the end, Bob Denard ran away because he was defeated.
But the cannons are still there, and the shells are sufficient. I don’t know how many times these cannons have changed hands since they were built, but the cannons are also in good condition. In fact, the old weapons from World War II are still there until the 21st century. The battlefields in Africa and even Europe are shining brightly!
While the mercenaries were mobilizing manpower to accumulate strength, Shadow Company was also mobilizing personnel bit by bit. Shepard reorganized all the combat teams under his command, and then established four teams: Apple, Butter, Charlie, and Dove. The code names are all historical code names, so no one thinks there is a problem. If there are more follow-up personnel to join, there will be teams such as Edward, Freddy, and George. Anyway, there are enough letters!
Among them, the three teams of Apple, Butter, and Charlie are a combination of old people and newcomers. They were all mobilized to the river valley camp by Shepard, while the Dove team accommodated a group of lightly wounded people and recruits, and was responsible for all previous security operations. .
Although there will be some shortage of manpower, with the security business of many companies getting on the right track and the personnel becoming more proficient in the business, Shepard's manpower gap has been alleviated. After all, one company and one fleet usually only need a team of six people. Instead of a whole squad like in the past.
During this time, the second batch of modified weapons from Knight Company also arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This batch of weapons included fifty M16 automatic rifles with replaced barrels and drums, and thirty Colt six 3x zoom optical sights, and 30,000 rounds of 7.62 mm nato bullets used in the m134 machine gun. The optical sights were all distributed to the precision shooters in each team, and the 3x scopes they used were prepared to be recycled and released. to the civilian market.
Although the firepower of the infantry has been strengthened again, compared to the mercenaries with cars and guns, the disadvantages of the Shadow Company are still too obvious. There is no way to help it. After all, although latecomers have the advantage of being a latecomer, they also have disadvantages. For the United States, Africa , is still very far away, but for France, it is the back garden. After the establishment of the South African eo mercenary company, which has not yet been established, it even relied on its geographical advantages to acquire towed cannons and serious armored vehicles, and even These guys also have air-fuel bombs as big killers!
Shepard doesn't dare to ask for things like thermobaric bombs yet. He is satisfied if he can get the 70mm rockets he needs. But the only thing he can hold at the moment is Morgan's line, because the latter is planning some secrets. action, resulting in a temporary outage.
Fortunately, Hannibal, who had disappeared for almost a month, finally came back from Kinshasa, and with him came two heavy-duty flatbed trailers that cost thousands of dollars to rent.
"Boss, look what I brought back for you!"
"You won't come back with a tank, right?"
Shepard was also overjoyed when he heard this. If nothing else, even if he was given a T34, he would now dare to take the initiative to attack Tokyo. Oh no, it is Francois's hometown!
"Well, slightly worse than a tank!"
Hannibal could see Shepard's excitement. He touched his head and tried to gently remind Shepard that the situation might not be what he thought!
"It's worse than a tank, but an armored car? An armored car is just as good, at least it has a cannon!"
Shepard waved his hand indifferently. In Africa, it is indeed difficult to find a intact tank and armored vehicle in the current era. After all, the tens of billions of subsidies from Xunzong have not officially started yet, so it can only be regarded as a beginning. If you want to buy a cheap second-hand BMP tank or T55 tank for girls' personal use, you have to wait for a while.
"There are also guns, but there are some problems with the cars!"
"What is the problem?"
"A gun is a gun? A car is a car!"
"Uh, what the hell are you doing?"
Shepard suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Didn't I give you 200,000 yuan in funding? Did you get all the kickbacks?"
Seeing that Shepard had already taken out his belt, Hannibal shook his head repeatedly.
"The 200,000 you gave me is not worth it at all. You also know where this place is. The Shermans in the military logistics warehouse of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have long been turned into scrap metal. I spent several days searching for them to replace them. I found these two things in good condition! It cost a total of two thousand US dollars. I gave the quartermaster a meal and spent one thousand dollars. Then I gave the remaining one thousand directly to his wife, and then the things were opened came back!"
During the conversation, the two of them also arrived at the parking lot. The flatbed truck was unloading goods, and Shepard rubbed his face helplessly when he saw the goods.
Then he gave Hannibal a thumbs up.
"For two thousand dollars, you can get two m20s, which is pretty good! But what about the guns?"
"In the car, there was an M40 recoilless gun with fifty rounds of shells!"
The gift that Hannibal brought to Shepard can be regarded as a grandpa-level gadget. It was an M20 wheeled armed reconnaissance vehicle produced by the American Ford Company. This gadget was once used as an aid weapon and was given to the French. The Democratic Republic of the Congo government It's in the military warehouse. That's probably how it came about. This car has a very famous cousin called the M8 Greyhound. This car is still used by the US military in Vietnam. It has a 37mm main gun and an M2 machine gun. But the M20 is relatively weak in terms of force. Its weapon rack is either an M2 heavy machine gun or an M1919 light machine gun, which can only be used to deal with infantry.
The situation of the two M20s brought by Hannibal was even more special. Not only did they have no weapons, but even the radios in the cars were missing, leaving only the power systems intact.
"Forget it, two thousand dollars to do this, that's already settled!"
"What about the weapons?"
"Let's put the M60 on it first. At least it can be regarded as a machine gun. Oh, by the way, let's weld the recoilless gun to the jeep together with the gun mount!"
Shepard now clearly realized that Shadow Company's guerrilla transformation seemed to have made a good start.
