Chapter 1234: War

The movements in Xiaomolong were not small. There were people from various countries and various identities here.

Within just one day, Sanbianpo, which had maintained a state of stability and peace at least on the surface in the past, became entirely restless.

Other surrounding autonomous regions, ethnic armed forces, the federal government, etc., were all on high alert. Wang Yan even received news that Chen Hao, that dog thing, had run away again.

As the saying goes, the duck knows when the spring river warms up. Sanbianpo is a deep pool that is dirty and bottomless. People like Chen Hao are ducks that sometimes float on the surface and sometimes dive into the pool to eat. When this deep pool stirs up waves, the most sensitive ones are this bunch of people.

The past turmoil in Sanbianpo all started like this. At the beginning, there were frictions between multiple parties, then two sides fought, multiple parties were restless, determined to snatch chestnuts from the fire, so the war expanded, the war escalated, and Sanbianpo became a pot of porridge. Of course, there were countless interest entanglements involved; if fighting a war doesn't make money or gain power, then it's fighting in vain. It's all because interest disputes cannot be resolved, and finally, they resort to force.

And Wang Yan's situation was relatively complicated because he was Chinese, and even now, he held a Chinese passport. In some of his ways of doing things and the overall governing policy after controlling Xiaomolong, he was highly close to the country.

Although he had a legendary evil reputation and everyone said his methods were ruthless, he actually wanted to lead Xiaomolong to take the right path and even delusionally wanted to lead the people of Xiaomolong to get rich, making them live and work in peace and contentment.

At the same time, his personal martial strength was powerful. A person with no military background, low education, and no record of ever going abroad had powerful martial strength, god-like marksmanship, and also knew how to govern the country, understood management, and understood how to grasp people's hearts.

Whoever it was, everyone would think this was some plan of China, sending such a person out to complete a task.

Only the relevant personnel in the country responsible for this side were very aggrieved; they didn't know they had such an awesome person at home either...

Mr. He even specifically ran over to find Wang Yan to ask about the relevant issues of this movement. Wang Yan had always been a straightforward person, so he told him everything as it was, explaining the matter to Mr. He from beginning to end.

Mr. He didn't say anything, just sighed at how awesome Wang Yan was, and then left, returning to organize it into a written report for the country, to be studied and judged by the relevant affairs office in the country.

Besides this, Liu Jin, the magistrate who held the Xiaomolong license, also received calls from all sides and felt the pressure from all sides. Reporters from news organizations everywhere surrounded the Xiaomolong office building, wanting to get first-hand information...

These, however, had nothing to do with Wang Yan.

He only spent half a day making deployment for Xiaomolong's public order and prevention, mobilized various ammunition and supplies for logistics, arranged the predetermined combat positions for the participating troops, and on that very evening, the vanguard troops had already begun to march.

For this battle to attack Luo Yang, Wang Yan mobilized 3,000 people. Weapons were countless, and there was no need to count. There really wasn't anything good. It was just a few broken armored vehicles, a few broken tanks, and a large pile of howitzers, mortars, RPGs, etc. The artillery fire was quite insufficient; the main battle still relied on infantry gunfights.

After all, this was mountainous and jungle terrain; artillery fire couldn't form coverage, so it was equivalent to having none. Among them, there were many gullies and dangerous places, and armored vehicles couldn't be deployed.

This was also why drug lords and warlords in the mountains could be so carefree and happy; it was really hard to fight. Not to mention the quality of the government army was also worrying; they had no will to fight, no military competence, and were half a catty to eight taels, fifty-fifty, when fighting the drug lord's army.

Although the quality of the army under Wang Yan was stronger, it wasn't much stronger.

But the good thing was that he was willing to spend money, willing to give honor, and if his subordinates died, he was willing to give pensions. Relatively speaking, the will to fight was much stronger.

With his micro-management of the battle, in the process of fighting, the combat competence of the combatants would also increase, and combat effectiveness would continue to improve. In general, the future was promising.

In general, this battle had four purposes.

Fight Luo Yang, remove the threat. Show the attitude of banning drugs. Improve the combat effectiveness of the army. Strengthen centralization.

The latter two were more important than the former two; after all, as long as the army could fight and his words carried weight, in a place like Sanbianpo, one could come and go freely...

The headquarters was brightly lit. Wang Yan was eating and drinking in the war room, also handling various affairs.

Now that a war was to be fought, both military and political affairs were in his hands, and all the messy things were on his shoulders alone. He was like a precise computer, controlling the high-speed operation of the machine composed of over 100,000 people in Xiaomolong.

At this time, the communication personnel contacting the troops on the side greeted: "Report, the Fourth Battalion detected suspicious personnel in... the mountain road. They might be Luo Yang's people."

Wang Yan didn't even think: "Find cover, direct artillery fire. The Twelfth Company is the main attack, the remaining troops of the Fourth Battalion flank from both sides. Order the First Battalion to march rapidly, insert quickly, bypass the engagement area, go to... and occupy the high ground. The Second Battalion goes north, to..."

His arrangements were made with ease, thanks to the map provided by Guess Uncle, and he had also looked at the satellite map, having already memorized some of the major terrain within the battlefield range. As for the terrain in the subtle places, that was the business of the front-line combat personnel. They had to constantly collect battlefield intelligence and summarize it to the headquarters.

And in the headquarters, there was also a group of staff officers processing various information, helping Wang Yan understand the battlefield dynamics.

These staff officers were relatively competent in military affairs. Either they had fought big battles before, had been soldiers elsewhere, done similar work, had certain experience, or were wild talents who had emerged.

There really were wild talents, like players like Zhang Shunyang. In this battle, the front-line commander was Zhang Shunyang...

So in general, Wang Yan was not without people to use. Otherwise, he wouldn't have stayed in Xiaomolong and would have gone to the front line to lead the team in a fierce attack long ago.

Having received Wang Yan's order, the communication personnel hurriedly contacted the various units.

This time, Wang Yan's orders went down to the company level, and some to the platoon level. It was mainly due to the backwardness of communication means, and information was relatively blocked. If possible, Wang Yan could even be precise down to the most grassroots squad combat unit to command them on how to act and fight.

Even commanding down to the individual was possible, but unless his subordinates were soldiers with one-tenth of his individual combat ability, there was absolutely no need for that...

After about half an hour, the communicator reported back.

"Report to the General, the battle has ended. 28 enemies killed, 2 captured alive, 4 escaped. According to the captives, they were indeed Luo Yang's men, and they also said they had already made preparations."

"Was there a specific time?"

"After one o'clock in the afternoon."

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows. That time was just when Guess Uncle had just returned to Daban, which meant that after returning to Daban, Guess Uncle had contacted Luo Yang to tip him off.

In addition, Shen Xing said Guess Uncle also contacted Chen Hao, which might have been to get in touch with Luan Basong's side. The old man didn't even hide it, directly betting on all three sides.

He nodded and turned to ask: "What about our casualties?"

"Two dead, six lightly injured, one seriously injured."

Wang Yan made some more adjustments and arranged logistics matters. A small encounter battle was declared over.

Infantry fighting was all the same; it was all faith shooting. Even without Wang Yan teaching them, they would do it. Not to mention Wang Yan had taught them: when fighting, it was all about throwing various grenades inside and multi-directional coordinated pressure.

This time, manpower also had a huge advantage. One battalion fighting one platoon—if they couldn't win this, they were really finished...

Just at this moment, the communicator reported again that the forward troops had encountered a siege...

Just like that, the war with the big drug lord Luo Yang completely opened its curtain.

From this day on, regardless of day or night, there was never a moment of rest.

However, overall, the situation was still relatively good. Although the casualties were not small, they were not unacceptable. This was Wang Yan's purpose; it was necessary for a batch to die. How could there be no deaths in a war? Not to mention that the ones dying were from Sanbianpo. As long as it didn't affect his overall situation, it didn't matter how many died.

And in terms of the overall intensity of the war, it was also okay here. The mobilized troop strength was indeed not as good as Luo Yang's, but Luo Yang didn't have over 20,000 troops to fight him either; it was estimated to be only 7,000 or 8,000 people.

Because Luan Basong had sent troops.

On the second afternoon after Wang Yan started fighting, Luan Basong directly mobilized nearly 20,000 troops to attack Luo Yang from another direction. That was the main battlefield; Wang Yan's side was just a diversionary force.

The number of participants on both sides was already not small, and it was the most troublesome jungle and mountain warfare, so the war wouldn't end in a short time. Especially since these were all makeshift teams, fighting would be even more laborious.

If it weren't for this, Sang Kang and Ban Long wouldn't have been fighting when Wang Yan arrived in Xiaomolong, and as a result, now that Wang Yan had obtained actual control of Xiaomolong, the two groups were still fighting.

So this battle would be fought for a long time.

And so, Wang Yan was very calm.

As the participants gradually adapted to the war and understood the combat intent he had laid out, the overall combat competence was also improving. Wang Yan gradually began to abandon command at the platoon level, then gradually abandoned command at the company level, and finally only commanded a few officers like Zhang Shunyang who were actually leading troops in battle. He only formulated strategies; the formulation of specific combat plans was handed over to them.

At the beginning, it was indeed not very good, and the casualties were a bit larger, but as they fought, there was progress.

With Wang Yan's constant adjustments, there would be no situation of a crushing defeat. He just needed to do a good job in logistics.

Bring the wounded from the front back for treatment, collect the bones of the dead, calculate combat merits, provide pensions, and simultaneously mobilize troops from Xiaomolong to fill the vacancies, and rotate the combat personnel who had been participating in the war for a long time.

Xiaomolong had a total of over 6,000, less than 7,000 troops. This was the number after his previous security team and reserve personnel were supplemented and some were cut.

The current scale of the war was enough for him to send all his combat personnel to the battlefield to fight for ten days or half a month, which was just two rounds.

At the same time, he was also recruiting new soldiers, and the scope was quite broad; eighteen years old and above was fine. Of course, it couldn't be compared with the local ones who held guns at twelve or thirteen. Wang Mouren naturally had a bottom line.

Another point of relaxation was that he accepted foreign mercenaries.

When the war started, he opened a recruitment announcement in Xiaomolong, writing clearly about the treatment. There were quite a few mercenaries active in Xiaomolong, but they didn't operate here; they were enjoying life here.

Since doing tourism business, Xiaomolong's service industry had made leapfrog progress, service quality soared, and at the same time, because of Wang Yan's existence, the safety index had also made leapfrog progress.

Xiaomolong had now begun to ban guns. Apart from the military and police, no one dared to show a gun on the street, otherwise, they would die very miserably.

And mercenaries who lived today without tomorrow naturally also needed a warm harbor. Xiaomolong was not bad in all aspects, and it had rare safety, so naturally, it became a better choice than the core Golden Triangle area over in Daqu Lin.

So seeing the recruitment advertisement, they naturally joined the army, using their own teams as the basic combat units and accepting combat missions.

At the same time, Wang Yan also had people post recruitment advertisements in the country. Of course, it wasn't that arrogant, but secretly circulating on the Internet, and it was still very effective, attracting quite a few people.

Some wanted to come to get rich, some were in debt and wanted to turn things around, some found life meaningless and came to find excitement, some wanted to fight a war; the ideas were endless.

There were also those with military backgrounds, and this composition was complicated. They might be completely retired and came on their own, or they might not be subjective intentions.

As for other locals, there was no need to say much. Now the treatment for being a soldier was the best, and those of age all wanted to be soldiers. Only when they couldn't be soldiers did they think about doing other work. Even people from outside Xiaomolong ran to Xiaomolong to enlist.

So in general, there was no shortage of soldiers, and the troop strength was maintained at over 6,000 people. At the same time, it took into account the fighting on the front line and the stability of Xiaomolong...

Fighting a war did have some impact on Xiaomolong. In the early stages of the war, there was a period of panic.

However, as the war continued to be fought, people found that the impact on Xiaomolong was not that great, and it was not as turbulent as people imagined. It was just that there were more military police patrolling with guns on the street, law enforcement had become stronger, small mistakes were heavily punished, big mistakes cost lives, and occasionally at checkpoints, there were gunfights caused by people who might have been sent by Luo Yang to cause destruction. Other than that, there was nothing different.

Various policies were still being implemented and promoted. Tourism business only paused a few routes and was still constantly receiving tourists. Wang Yan even benefited, launching a special tourism project: battlefield packages. The package included watching battlefield records and using telescopes to watch the battle in real-time from an advantageous position.

Wang Yan took the opportunity to launch travel insurance. As long as you bought insurance, there were different standards of compensation for injury, disability, or death. And he took the opportunity to expand it to additional items of tourism services.

Undoubtedly, the insurance business was very profitable. And he himself could guarantee the maximum personal safety. Even if there were occasional deaths and injuries, they were small problems, and he still made a huge profit. He had properly added another source of wealth...

In terms of the overall environment of Sanbianpo, this war did not cause large-scale turmoil because other armed forces did not participate. They were not as restless as when Wang Yan mobilized troops and had already returned to their original state.

When the bullets weren't fired, everyone shivered. After they were fired, they found they hadn't hit themselves. Wanting to pull their own guns, they found they had no opportunity, so everyone was safe and sound.

As for the federal government, the three parties were biting each other like dogs; they didn't care. Originally, no one could control anyone, and it would be best if they all died... ===== CHAPTER 1235 =====