Don't talk about martial arts, I'm a war contractor

Chapter 528: Confrontation escalates, all-out war begins

As if knowing what was in Elmencho's mind, the other party took the initiative to speak.

In other countries, the DEA's power cannot catch up with theirs, but with Brother Mexico, they are evenly matched.

Although they couldn't get accurate intelligence, they had general information, so it was useless even if they kept a close eye on the dock landing ship.

"Okay, I get it. I will restart the route after I deal with the other party. The magnesium market can only be strategically contracted for now. It won't be too late to talk about everything later."

El Mencho said helplessly.

He felt that he was wasting hundreds of millions of dollars every year. They only had some intelligence support, but they would not help him solve the problem at all.

"I'll remind you again, you must pay attention to their dock landing ship. There is a Sea Harrier on it, which is the kind of fighter jet that Schwarzenegger flies in the movies. It can fight from the near sea to 100 kilometers deep inland."

When Lao Ai heard that the other side had deployed fighter jets, his heart skipped a beat, but when he heard from below that the combat radius was only 100 kilometers, his heart settled down again.

At such a short distance, the threat is very limited, so there is no need to worry too much about the safety of the two air defense systems.

"Anyway, just keep quiet for a while. With Marquez's financial resources, he can only hire them for two or three months at most. The Fire Defense Force will not stay in Mexico forever."

After saying the last sentence, the person on the other end hung up the phone.

Elmencho also felt that this was very true. Given the operating costs of so many heavy equipment and the food and clothing required to ensure profits, the deployment cycle would inevitably be shortened.

But he was strong-willed by nature and would not learn to bury his head in the sand like an ostrich. After suffering such a heavy loss, he wanted to retaliate in equal measure by concentrating fire on the defense and let them feel the pain of losing men and horses.

Several days passed in a flash, and the first batch of anti-tank missiles crossed the Gulf of Mexico and were successfully delivered to CJNJ.

It would be too much of a stretch to let Bison carry out the interception alone, especially without intelligence support.

"Most of our intelligence resources are concentrated on the laundry detergent business. We can find some clues about shipping goods from Central and South America to Europe, but shipping arms from Europe to Mexico is the CIA's business scope."

At the meeting, Eric spread his hands and said when Xia Yu talked about the group of Roman arms dealers who had connections with CJNJ.

"CIA? It's good news that they don't cause trouble or play dirty tricks. I can cooperate with the FBI, ATF, and your DEA, but it's better to stay away from them."

Xia Yu expressed his disgust for the CIA without any reservation.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just look at what Afghanistan has become. The local laundry detergent raw material planting industry suffered a major blow during the period of DEA deployment, and when FAST was withdrawn to America, everything came back to life.

"We don't like these guys either, they are troublemakers."

Behind closed doors, Eric also launched into outrageous remarks.

They had suffered too much from the CIA in the crackdown on laundry detergent, but they couldn't turn the table against them and could only swallow their anger.

Of course, if there is an opportunity, the DEA will retaliate against the other party.

"We are unable to intercept the enemy's supply channels at sea, so we must be prepared for further escalation of the confrontation. Fortunately, we still have a backup plan."

Only by making the worst-case plan in advance can you be invincible.

Similarly, concentrated fire defense will also release some "false information" to confuse the opponent. Now it depends on whether these guys will be fooled.

There should be a high probability that nothing unexpected will happen. After all, there are two big pieces of fat meat, and everyone will be envious.

…………

"Jefe, everything has arrived, a total of 60 Spike-SRs, 30 sets of Cornet launchers and 90 missiles."

After receiving and counting the goods, his men reported to El Mencho.

These are expensive. They also bought a lot of cheap anti-tank mines this time. By then, they will bury dozens or even hundreds of them in each stronghold. It will be a profit if they can knock down an infantry fighting vehicle that is focusing fire to defend it.

As for those two damn heavy armed helicopters, they are the work of the medium-range air defense system. There is no rush until the goods arrive, but he has to call Vlad now.

"Mr. Vlad, this concentrated fire defense is really hard to deal with. In order to block my shipping channels at sea, they even deployed dock landing ships to the eastern Pacific Ocean. A batch of two tons of my goods was intercepted last week."

"This was bought by their Asian branch to fight pirates. I didn't expect it could be used against CJNJ."

Vlad was very surprised to hear El Mencho say this.

Two tons of goods would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Even if this is the final sales price, the other party's loss this time is heavy.

"They probably sent all the equipment they could to Mexico. Marquez's money was well spent, but I want Focused Fire Defense to pay the price. Mr. Vlad, do you still have any anti-ship missiles?"

El Mencho explained the purpose of his call.

The group of naval frogmen he found for the other side were most likely used by Vlad to deal with concentrated fire defense, but no news leaked out at all, so it was most likely a failure.

This trick is a direct failure. It is not reliable to fill the Big Foot submarine with explosives and turn it into a manned suicide boat. After much thought, it is better to use anti-ship missiles directly!

El Mencho could afford to spend tens of millions to sink or just damage this damn dock landing ship.

"Yes, but it's a land-based version made from a warship. I'll give it to you at cost price."

Since Vlad had agreed to help out, he naturally did his best.

But there are definitely no proper land-based anti-ship missiles, so we can just use ship-based missiles when landing!

"Okay, I'll take it, but hurry up, we only have a month at most."

El Mencho just chopped his hands.

"A month will definitely be enough. I'll find you a boat right away."

Soon, when the two medium-range air defense systems were unloaded and shipped to Jalisco, Vlad's anti-ship missiles were also loaded onto ships and sent to Mexico, accompanied by technicians who could operate the system.

CJNJ can operate anti-tank missiles and mines by himself, but the air defense system and anti-ship system must rely on mercenaries. Elmencho happily supports them with $5000 per person per day, starting from the day they board the ship.

There is only one requirement for such high treatment, and that is to ensure that missiles are fired as soon as the battle starts.

El Mencho is a bit arrogant, but he is the boss who can train the drug cartel into a paramilitary organization, and he has sufficient knowledge of military equipment.

Once these weapons were deployed, even if the concentrated fire defense was stunned and unable to launch any counterattack, the military would inevitably fail under the pressure of the magnesium people, so Lao Ai used them as disposable weapons from the beginning.

He fired all the missiles in one breath, then blew up the car and ran away, completely hiding and silent until the storm had passed, and then reappeared in the arena.

In this way, he has both face and substance.

The idea is good, but we will only know whether it can be done after we have tried it.

…………

"Boss, these guys from CJNJ have started laying mines around our base. Their pickup trucks and armored vehicles can hold them down without exploding, but our tanks and infantry fighting vehicles can kill them with ease."

The drone crew operator pointed at the screen being broadcast by Sparrowhawk B and said.

The armed men of CJNJ were digging holes and burying disc-shaped anti-tank mines in them. "The military and police only used pickup trucks and light armored vehicles to attack them, so they don't have any anti-tank mines. These are all the goods they recently received."

From this we can judge that the first batch of arms from Europe has arrived.

In addition to these anti-tank mines, there are also anti-tank missiles that are equally easy to transport.

The exact number is still unclear. These drug lord gangs are so poor that they only have money left. If they really launch a saturation attack, the pressure will be quite great.

Sure enough, it was a wise choice for him to transfer all five tank crews over. The more armored units there are, the better it is to disperse the pressure.

As for the anti-tank mines that had been buried on the screen, Xia Yu didn't take them too seriously.

There is no need to worry about landmines in the direction where the armed helicopters are taking care of it, and they also have ways to open up safe passages in the strongholds surrounded by armored convoys.

There are as many mines in Afika as there are "mines" in the bridge tunnels, so you don't need to be very experienced to deal with them with concentrated fire defense.

The drones patrolled all marked points, formally assigned tasks, and conducted a second round of patrols in the early morning hours for the points assigned to the armored convoys.

In order to better detonate, anti-tank mines cannot be buried too deep. Once the temperature difference between day and night is large, the thermal imaging channel of the drone can detect the traces of these mines.

Xia Yu didn't need to mark every mine. What he wanted was the density, length and width data of the minefield. After knowing this, Hans and his team could open the passage as quickly as possible and rush into these strongholds hidden in the community villages.

Although it is cruel, civilians are the best human shields in the eyes of drug lords. The limited defense budget of the military is only one aspect. Ordinary people living together with CJNJ also restrict them.

99% of the battles that broke out between the two sides were gun battles, but the concentrated fire defense with precision strike capabilities directly escalated the confrontation.

"Om~~"

One night a week later, the roar of engines broke the silence of the night. A T-80BVM was seen at the head of the team, a KF-31 Lynx in the middle, and a Cheetah A2 and a military truck following behind.

Such an armored assault team was solely responsible for capturing a 100-man stronghold of CJNJ, but before they arrived, the other side received the news from their spies.

"They said there were people with one water pipe, two water pipes, and armored vehicles that were long and thick like tanks in the convoy. They wouldn't do that to us, would they?"

Putting down the phone, the liaison officer and the head of the base reported with chattering teeth.

"The intelligence didn't say the enemy had tanks! Whatever, let's get everyone ready for battle, especially those anti-tank shooters."

The person in charge immediately gave the order.

Their stronghold was allocated 3 Spike SRs and a set of Kornet with 3 spare bullets. They did not expect to take down an armored vehicle with one missile, but only hoped that the enemy would be sent to the sky by anti-tank mines.

Unfortunately, when the armored convoy was about to rush into their village stronghold, it suddenly stopped, and the T-80BVM in the front was only 25 meters away from the minefield.

An infantry squad of the village protection team wearing monocular night vision goggles jumped out of the rear military truck compartment. They were seen moving forward quickly, carrying four army green painted metal boxes.

"Da~da~da~~"

Intensive gunfire was heard from the stronghold. The bright muzzle flames were visible to the naked eye in the dark night. This was a tentative attack by CJNJ. Only a few shots hit the T-80BVM, and then it flew away without leaving even a white mark.

"What about drones? Any tanks or infantry fighting vehicles, see if you can blow them up."

The person in charge shouted loudly.

Their base has four consumer-grade drones, which were originally used for reconnaissance and sneak attacks on hostile drug gangs. Now they are all equipped with combat units and converted into self-destructive drones.

But the drone hasn't taken off yet...

"咻~咻~~"

The four little black guys carrying boxes hid behind the golden monkey crew and squatted down to set up a launching position. They saw four rockets flying out, dragging long detonating cords and directly covering the minefield which was only 4 meters wide.

"Boom~boom~boom~~"

The violent explosion was like an earthquake. The civilians lying in bed wrapped themselves in quilts and crawled under the bed, hoping that everything outside had nothing to do with them.

"Om~~"

"Woo~wu~wu~~"

The T-80BVM, leading the way, ran through the newly cleared safety passage in the minefield and headed towards the interior of the village. Four suicide drones took off one after another.

But unfortunately, the spoon-shaped radar of the Cheetah A2 was spinning rapidly and instantly locked onto the four little guys in the low altitude.

"Dong~dong~dong~dong~~"

There were no programmable air-blast bombs to strike these slow, small targets. Ordinary high-explosive bombs were also very effective, taking out a target with an average of four or five rounds. However, the drone’s body was too light to even trigger the collision fuse, so it flew off into the night again.

"Sudden~sudden~sudden~~"

The Golden Monkey crew operated the coaxial machine gun and fired countless 7.62×54mm ammunition at the opposite side, instantly suppressing the opponent's firepower...

"Hey~~"

At a window of a self-built house 750 meters away in a straight line, a Spike-SR, which was used to fill the gap between heavy-barreled and medium-range anti-tank missiles and could fire and forget, was launched by the shooter from indoors and flew autonomously towards the T-80BVM.

This weapon, which costs only 30% of the Javelin, does not have any fancy top attack mode, but its direct-fire accuracy is acceptable, and its infrared guidance head continues to lock onto the tank turret until...

"Puff~puff~~"

The active defense system launcher installed on the left front of the T-80BVM fired two interceptor missiles in succession.

"Boom~~"

"Quick, saturation attack, what they said above is correct, one or two missiles can't break their defense at all."

Seeing that the attack was ineffective, the person in charge of the stronghold immediately gave orders on the radio.

"咻~咻~咻~~"

The anti-tank shooters who were scattered and hidden in various places opened fire at the same time. Two Spike-SRs and one Kornet were fired at the Golden Monkey crew from different directions.

"Puff~puff~puff~~"

After being detected and locked by the millimeter-wave radar, the left and right front aircraft fired all their interceptor missiles at the same time.

"Boom~boom~boom~~"

The first two Spike-SR shells with low equivalent penetration values ​​were intercepted as expected, but they also created opportunities for the Cornet shell with an equivalent penetration of 1000mm+ to succeed.

The tandem warhead of the original Russian short-range missile crashed head-on into the domestically produced fossil heavy explosive reactive weapon.

With so many coincidences, a game of using one's own spear to attack another's shield was played out in this distant Mexico.

(End of this chapter)