Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 70: The Oil Region: Easy to Attack but Hard to Defend

"What did that golden-haired guy say to you?"

Returning to their caravan, the cook came over and asked.

"Good news," Song Heping said, "We'll only have 50 people stationed in the oil field this time."

"Didn't we agree on 200 people?" The cook was stunned.

Song Heping shook his head: "Not now, it has changed temporarily."

The cook asked, "What do you want to change?"

"I guess they feel we're not capable of handling the security of the Hassan Oil Field, so they'd rather send fewer people there. If something goes wrong, they won't have to pay so much money when they die."

Song Heping pointed out the little tricks of Wood Company.

"Damn capitalists!" the cook muttered. "How much they despise us!"

He paused and continued, "But we do have a small number of people. Look at Rice and his team. They have 100 local mercenaries and 30 core team members..."

As he spoke, a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.

Song Heping was also under a lot of pressure.

The Hassan oil field covers an area of ​​nearly 600 square kilometers.

This was his first time commanding a troop in actual combat, but he couldn't show any fear at this moment, after all, he was the leader now.

"It's okay, just go there and follow my instructions."

Although he said this, Song Heping and his team still felt a little uneasy when they arrived at the Hassan Oil Field at dusk.

The oil fields here are almost all endless plains, with countless steel towers and huge oil storage tanks. When the convoy entered the oil field, what came into view was a scene of destruction and desolation. Many facilities and houses were damaged, and some pipelines were obviously blown up by humans. In some places, even the surface was black, obviously burned by arson.

After unloading the engineers and local employees of Wood Company, Song Heping gathered everyone together and asked Samir and another platoon leader, Larif, to lead two platoons of 60 people to set up guard posts near the core production area and living area of ​​the oil field. Then he drove with the cook and others to scout the situation in the entire oil field area.

While surveying the terrain, Song Heping became more and more frightened.

He increasingly felt that the reason why Wood gave such a large oil field security task to his mercenary group did not mean that this old fox trusted him.

too big.

This oil field area.

Living area, oil production area, loading and unloading and storage area.

The entire oil field is a long strip, about 18 kilometers wide and 32 kilometers long, with a total area of ​​576 square kilometers.

It is not impossible to prevent accidents. If Wood Company is willing to build barbed wire fences on the edge of the normal oil field and station at least two companies of security personnel to patrol day and night, it can hold the position if it can obtain rapid reinforcement and air support from the coalition forces when something happens.

But with only 60 people, they could not defend at all. Except for a swamp to the north of the storage area, there was no strategic location to defend. The terrain was flat with only some small mounds and ditches scattered around. There was no hiding place, let alone any key points such as passes that could be used for defense.

It can be said that the entire Hassan oil field area is a sieve with leaks everywhere.

After returning to the production area, Song Heping immediately went to find Sanchez, the engineer's supervisor, and asked him about his work arrangements for the next few days.

Sanchez explained truthfully, "Our main task these days is to assess and test the extent of the damage to the equipment here, and then submit a report to the head office. They will then arrange how many people to send here to resume production and how much equipment to deliver to repair the damaged facilities so that the entire oil region can operate again."

When Song Heping heard this, he immediately understood what was going on.

"Let them stay here tonight instead of staying overnight. Let them stay in a nearby town and drive over here to work tomorrow morning."

He expressed his opinion.

Sanchez said hurriedly, "What? There's a living area here, why don't you live here? I just went to check the living area, and there's nothing wrong with the house. It's been turned over inside, but the bed is still there. We brought sleeping bags, so we can live here."

Song Heping said, "If you don't want to die, you'd better listen to me. You can't stay here tonight."

Sanchez asked, "You mean there's going to be an attack tonight?"

Song Heping said, "Not necessarily, but it's not safe. If an armed group attacks, we can't protect you with just a few people."

Sanchez said, "What do you mean? You are mercenaries. Security issues are your responsibility. My responsibility is to quickly submit a report to the head office and help quickly resume production." Song Heping asked in return, "Can you work at night?"

Sanchez shook his head: "There's something wrong with the power system. It needs to be fixed."

Song Heping said, "That's right. In that case, you can go to a nearby town to rest and come back to work during the day. We will be responsible for escorting you. Has this affected your work progress?"

Sanchez was speechless.

Because Song Heping was telling the truth.

This does not affect work efficiency.

"Okay." Sanchez took a step back. "But I need to report this to Mr. Turner."

"Oh right." Song Heping remembered something: "Where's Mr. Turner?"

"He went back to Bakda," Sanchez said. "He told us to call if we have any questions."

Song Heping smiled: "That's right, he ran away, do you think he doesn't know it's dangerous here?"

He patted the engineering supervisor on the shoulder and said, "Just listen to me. You don't want to be put in a box and sent back to the US, right?"

Sanchez has two children, the oldest is only six years old and the youngest is one year old.

When Song Heping said this, he understood and nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Returning to his team, Song Heping told everyone about his decision.

The cook breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

"That's good, at least we don't have to worry about protecting them."

Finally, he asked Song Heping: "We will feel more relaxed when we return to town at night."

"We're not going back," Song Heping said. "We're staying."

"Stay? Stay here?"

Everyone was a little surprised.

Song Heping took out the map and spread it out on the table.

"Do you think that now that we are here, have those armed groups entrenched here received the news?"

The cook thought for a moment and said, "Of course they know. This area is their territory, so they must have spies."

Song Heping said, "That's right. Now that they know, they will definitely come here to cause trouble. The Hassan and Cook oil fields are both highly productive areas. The forces entrenched here all want to occupy them to make a fortune. Why hasn't anyone occupied them? That's because they can't defend them. The Americans think they can defend them, so the interim government contracted them out. The various forces here will definitely use their own methods to make the Americans retreat. I estimate that tonight, they will definitely come to give us a warning."

The cook nodded. "You mean we should have a good fight with them here tonight?"

"What are we doing?" Song Heping put the map away. "How many of us are there? Are we going to fight them to the death? Cook, you think the company's compensation is too much to pay, right?"

Everyone understood what he meant.

The core team members buy insurance.

If you die, the insurance company will compensate you.

However, because it is battlefield insurance, it is very expensive and can only be purchased for core team members.

Local mercenaries like Samir are not eligible for this benefit. According to the rules of Bakda, if a local mercenary dies, he will be compensated with $5000.

"If we don't fight them, why should we stay here?" White Bear stretched and said, "It's better to run dozens of kilometers back to town and have a good sleep."

"When guests come, we have to prepare a little surprise for them, right?" Song Heping said, "Oh right, let them move some of the mines off the car. If there are guests coming tonight, let them come. We'll prepare a delicious meal for them and invite them to enjoy it."

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