Chapter Sixteen Yazid IV

  Wang Hui was stunned. He had already made up his mind to accept the bamboo stick from Hai Shark Gang, but he didn't expect that it would be to surrender to himself.

  "Big Brother Dòu, the Hai Shark Gang is now recovering well and developing rapidly. Why do you want to surrender to me? Aren't you afraid of being restricted?"

  "So you're saying that Brother Wang doesn't trust me?"

  "That's absolutely not what I meant."

  To be honest, I've had the idea of joining you brothers for a long time! The business you're in is getting bigger and bigger, everyone knows that your future prospects are boundless. I'm joining you, after all, it's still for my own future planning.

  Our gang has been operating in Southeast Asia for over 20 years, with branches all over the place. But after all, we are not on the right path, and we don't have any armed forces of our own. The bigger we get, the more like a lamb to be slaughtered.

  When the Malacca incident broke out, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen branch halls collapsed, and other branch halls suffered varying degrees of damage. If it weren't for Brother Mei's timely information, I'm afraid we would have been caught by now.

  Brother, I finally understand that the underworld is just a ceramic chamber pot compared to the righteous path. When the righteous path wants to use it, they treat it like a treasure, but when it's useless, they throw it far away and shatter it into pieces if they're not careful.

  I've been struggling with a certain person for decades, and although my ambition is not old, it's not as good as when I was young. The older you get, the smaller your courage becomes, and you're always worried that one day you'll be harmed by someone. Even if I don't think about myself, I have to think about the thousands of brothers under me. As their big brother, I have to plan a future for them...

  It can be heard that Mingyuan Du's words are very sincere and not like joking.

  Wang Hui listened quietly and said carefully: "Dong Da Bangzhu, since you think highly of me, little brother, and are willing to join forces with me to achieve great things, how could I not be willing? I wholeheartedly agree. However, little brother also has a request, hoping Dong Da Bangzhu can agree."

  "King brothers, just say it."

  "You are thirty years older than me, so you can be my uncle. When you were fighting at sea, I was not yet born. After the merger, you will take over as the head of Rishōdō."

  "If Brother Wang wants to say so, he has killed me with his words. My little skills can't be compared to those of Brother Wang's. In any organization, it is always the capable who take the lead, and not arranged by age. If Brother Wang looks down on me and gives me the second-in-command position, I will be satisfied."

  Wang Hui knew that he, as a colonel and regimental commander of the Nan Hua Federation Marine Corps, was just going through the motions.

  Polite phrases are useless and a waste of time in the eyes of straightforward foreigners.

  But China's traditional culture is like this, must show modesty and courtesy. Otherwise it would be arrogant and complacent, looking down on others, which would not be beneficial for recruiting talents in the future.

  The two of them pushed back and forth, wasting more than half an hour, and in the end neither side accepted the position of leader, but instead delayed the time.

  Wang Hui woke up quickly and declared a moratorium on disputes, cooperating to make money, letting Hai Shark's gang go first to handle the unloading of goods.

  Wang Hui thought about the problem, no matter how big or small, without any omission. When loading the artillery onto the ship, he had already considered the issue of unloading the cargo.

  For this, he had to apply to his superiors for a tank landing ship, which can carry an entire tank battalion at one time. The flat-bottomed and shallow-draft vessel with its own lifting gear is very convenient for beach landings without ports.

  In order to keep it confidential, they had no choice but to take action on a heavily overcast day.

  For the sake of secrecy, the number of crew members on the landing ship was also reduced to a minimum. The entire ship, including the captain, had only 123 people.

  The task of loading and unloading was also done by Hai Shark's people.

  After three round trips, a tank battalion, along with various ancillary equipment, landed ashore.

  Temporary storage place for weapons, located in the guerrilla zone of the Acehnese people.

  Only seven kilometers from the coast, and thirty kilometers from the North Azizi County Industrial Zone that was to be attacked.

  With the help of the Acehnese, the mercenaries built a military camp here.

  Perhaps it was quiet before the war, and the mercenaries spent six days coming and going to receive this batch of ammunition.

  In these six days, neither Indonesian Navy was seen leaving the port nor Indonesian Army was seen leaving the city.

  In these six days, the Acehnese soldiers who had been trained in countries such as Libya continued to sneak back into their home country. With this as a backbone, supplemented by guerrilla fighters from Aceh, Aceh formed a regular army - the National Army of Aceh.

  This national army was organized into three divisions with a total of nearly 20,000 men. Although the number of people is not small, they are seriously lacking in weapons.

  The entire army's heavy weapons added up to just over 700 pieces, all of which were light weapons. The heaviest weapons were thirteen heavy machine guns and four 60mm mortars.

  Wang Hui Zhong had a clear understanding of the National Army's equipment and couldn't help but laugh: With this little strength, they still want to attack the county city guarded by the regular Indonesian army, it's really courting death.

  The Acehnese saw the arsenal of the mercenaries and envied them so much that they drooled. They wanted to buy but had no money, so the Acehnese started thinking crookedly: if they robbed openly, it would definitely not work, as every single weapon in the hands of the mercenaries was a deadly one.

  If they can't plunder, they steal. Around the military camps, Aceh guerrilla activities are frequent, with weapons lost every day, and mercenaries cannot strengthen their vigilance.

  In order to maintain the relationship between the two armies, Wang Hui also showed leniency to the captured gun thieves, teaching them a lesson before releasing them.

  It turned out that the Acehnese thought the mercenaries were a soft touch, and more and more people stole guns, some even brazenly breaking into military camps.

  Wang Hui could no longer bear it and ordered that anyone caught stealing was not to be released.

  This is a fine mess, within a few short days, over a thousand people were imprisoned in the military camp, it was literally overcrowded.

  These people are allies and also have to be fed, mercenaries suffer greatly.

  Major Long Jianqiang, thousands of miles away, after reading the latest intelligence in his hands, focused his attention on the incident of lost weapons.

  Don't just look at losing one or two guns a day, on the surface it's not a big deal, but if this goes on for years and months, it's also an enormous loss that can't be ignored.

  After comprehensive consideration, Lieutenant General Long Jianqiang ordered Wang Hui through radio to execute all those over a thousand thieves by gunfire.

  To put it bluntly, we and the Acehnese are essentially in a life-and-death hostile relationship! It is only when faced with a common enemy that an alliance is formed, and this alliance is temporary and very unstable.

  After we defeat the Javanese attack, the alliance will inevitably break, and Aceh will turn its guns on us! Today, every gun we lose will be one more butcher's knife they'll use to attack us tomorrow! We must not only take good care of our own weapons but also prevent a single piece of steel from flowing into Aceh.

  From now on, when fighting together, we must also pay attention to seizing spoils of war. We cannot give away the captured weapons just because they are outdated and the soldiers don't like them, only to have them fall into the hands of Aceh!

  King Hui immediately wired back: "Shoot to death over a thousand people at once, this is also too many, I think shooting a few leaders can also serve as a warning."

  Radio transmission becomes stern, Wang Hui Zhong, you're now always hanging out with the Acehnese, have your bones gone soft? You still haggle over prices when killing a few thieves? Are you and your marines soft persimmons that anyone can take advantage of?

  Those newly recruited soldiers, who have never been on the battlefield, never killed anyone, and never seen blood, when they arrive at the battlefield, no matter how skilled they are, they can't bring their abilities into play. Let those new soldier rookies do the executions.

  Wang Hui finished the phone call and only then did he realize that cold sweat had broken out on his back, chilling him to the bone.

  All naval officers were shocked, this is more than a thousand lives.

  If formed into an army, it can form two companies.

  If packed into a movie theater, it would fill the entire cinema to bursting.

  If one person stands on each meter, they can line up for a kilometer.

  If it were over a thousand pigs, even the most skilled butcher would get tired...

  Upon careful consideration, it is indeed beneficial for the mercenaries to execute these people, whether in the present or for future planning.

  Executing these people can achieve multiple goals at once.

  Eliminate the loss of military supplies.

  Secondly, a warning to everyone: mercenaries are not to be trifled with.

  These thousands of people are the backbone of the Aceh guerrilla, executing them would be equivalent to weakening the power of Aceh and reducing the pressure on the mercenaries when the two armies clash in the future.

  Four, food supply is tense, but still have to support this group of wastrels, it's really not cost-effective.

  Five. In the anti-Chinese riot, the Acehnese also took action, shooting them and indirectly avenging the Chinese who died at the hands of the Acehnese.

  Setting aside human emotions and just talking about benefits and harm, these Acehnese thieves deserve to die ten thousand times.

  "What if the oxen and horses are being stubborn and refuse to move? Then you have to whip them hard! The Acehnese, including all Indonesians, are like oxen and horses by nature. They are half-beasts who haven't fully evolved, they won't be aware of things on their own, only with whipping can the world be at peace. Wang Hui, can't you even understand this?" Colonel Zhang Yongjun, the deputy regiment commander, explained.

  But when it really came down to it, facing over a thousand terrified eyes, all the warriors hesitated.

  Especially those new recruits who were executing the punishment, although they had received strict training, their hands shook violently. A round of gunfire passed by, and all the bullets missed their mark.

  Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Yongjun, who was standing by, couldn't take it anymore and shouted at the new recruits: "Newbie eggs, just newbie eggs! Can't even hit a big living person at 20 meters! Get closer and shoot! Listen to my orders! Attention, march forward in step!"

  These soldiers were mainly from local Chinese in Nanyang islands.

  New recruits are trained as soon as they arrive, and the training camp is mainly located in the jungle of Irian Island, where there is a large training base.

  In the depths of the dense forest, outsiders are unaware, and a reception station must be set up in a convenient location for transportation. The temporary military camp established by the 3rd Brigade of the South China Federation Navy's Marine Corps, also known as the Mercenary Army, in the Acehnese guerrilla zone played this role.

  The new recruits will undergo a two-week short training on the island of Irian, during which they will be screened and unsuitable people will be eliminated to prevent spies from Java or other forces from infiltrating.

  Most of those who were eliminated were due to physical problems, with an elimination rate as high as 50%.

  After two weeks of training, initial results have been achieved. The team formation is now well-organized and the 50-meter target can be hit accurately.

  Then proceed with formal training and start organizing the team.