King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer

Joe Ga didn't take the 'Medic Officer Bird's' warnings seriously, but soon after, he faced repercussions...

The value of night vision had been repeatedly proven in the many battles since Joe Ga had entered the industry.

When you can see your enemy clearly in the pitch-dark night, you've already won more than half the battle.

Manlo's anti-poaching unit was equipped with single-tube night vision devices for each person, let alone Joe Ga's team that was fully equipped with sophisticated night vision gear.

Joe Ga couldn't think of any reason why his side might lose under these circumstances.

But reality struck him a harsh blow...

The poachers were stationed on a small hillock, and as Joe Ga and his team gradually approached, those guys unexpectedly fired first.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang..."

A vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun unleashed a string of bullets, guided by tracer rounds, towards Manlo's direction.

The bullets' accuracy wasn't high, but the direction was spot on, and they were getting closer to Manlo's team with each adjustment.

Manlo, experienced as he was, shouted loudly for his companions to get down before the bullets reached them. He then began crawling away close to the ground, spreading out to increase the distance between his comrades to prevent all of them being wiped out in one shot.

The sudden attack left Joe Ga stunned for a moment. They were nearly 600 meters from the enemy, with only his SVD and Antar's M110 having the range...

"What's going on?"

As Joe Ga spoke, he had already raised his SVD to his shoulder. To him, a distance of 600 meters was not a challenge. The moment he pulled the trigger, the head of the militiaman operating the machine gun exploded.

The sudden strike threw the enemies on the mound into disarray, but soon they began firing in their direction.

The AK had a long range, but beyond 400 meters, its accuracy was questionable.

But with the enemy situated higher up, Joe Ga and his team, standing unprotected in the open grassland, were still in significant danger.

Crouching on the ground, Joe Ga felt a stray bullet whiz past his ear. He stared fixedly at the only enemy vehicle with a machine gun while shouting loudly, "I don't see anyone with night-vision gear. How did they spot us from such a distance?"

Antar had also never experienced this situation before. It wasn't dangerous, but losing the tactical advantage felt terrible.

Lying on the ground and carefully examining the images sent back by the drone, Antar suddenly shouted, "The off-road vehicle, there's something on that off-road vehicle, it seems like there's a device..."

The more experienced 'Medic Officer Bird' and 'Spur' crouched in a pincer formation in front of Joe Ga, continuously pulling the trigger to suppress the enemy's gunfire. Hearing Antar's shout, 'Medic Officer Bird' suddenly called out, "It's a vehicle-mounted night vision device. Those soldiers can't see us; they only know our approximate direction.

Boss, you guys stay back to cover us; I and 'Spur' will move forward..."

'Medic Officer Bird', a member of the Delta Force, was still rich in experience and decisively calm.

Charging towards bullets may sound foolhardy, but it was their best option at the moment because if they didn't disable the enemy's night vision device, changing direction would yield the same result.

The enemy had 37 people, whereas their side, including Manlo's eight, totaled just 16.

In this kind of exposed frontal confrontation, the risk was about the same for both Delta Force and Africa militia.

Joe Ga pushed aside Rick and Phil, who always tried to crowd in front of him, and said to Karman, "'Spur' and 'Medic Officer Bird' take the flank. Dragon Gecko, you and Rhino go and meet up with Manlo's group; tell them not to panic.

Owl, keep your eyes on the vehicle-mounted machine gun. King Kong, let the machine gun roar. I'll take out their night-vision device."

"Understood, watching the machine gun."

Hearing Antar's reply, Joe Ga decisively shifted his gun muzzle and pulled the trigger towards the outermost open-topped off-road vehicle.

A loud "bang" followed by a gunshot caused a piece of equipment mounted in the rear seat of the off-road vehicle to shake.

The shot didn't hit anyone, but it severely startled the people in the vehicle.

One of them, terrified, started the vehicle trying to flee, but quickly another bullet found his head.

The 7.62 mm bullet shot from the SVD was extremely powerful. The poor fellow's cheek seemed to have been struck by a hammer, suddenly caving in, and then his neck jerked violently as his head exploded, spraying blood and brain matter across the back seat...

The tumbling bullet that pierced the unfortunate guy's head then hit another person in the shoulder, eliciting an agonizing scream.

As Joe Ga finished shooting, Ayu's PKM also began to fire.

Using the machine gun as if it were an automatic rifle, Ayu, squatting at a forward angle to Joe Ga, pulled the trigger, firmly suppressing the trajectory of its bullets on the mound, pinning down a group of reckless gunmen who couldn't raise their heads.

Joe Ga fired two more shots at the machine and then pressed the radio, saying, "Change angle, move position, up, up, up, they shouldn't be able to see us now."

As Joe Ga yelled, gunshots also rang out from both sides of the dirt mound, and those enemies above finally couldn't bear it any longer.

A guy suddenly rushed towards the vehicle-mounted machine gun, trying to use it to suppress the machine gun fire from Ayu's side, to create a chance for everyone to retreat.

But the moment the guy touched the machine gun, a bullet hit him in the chest.

The shooter, Antar, took a careful look and suddenly exclaimed, "Boss, some of them don't seem to be locals."

Joe Ga pulled the trigger, hitting a guy trying to start the pickup truck, and then shouted loudly, "Don't worry about it, let's take them down first."

Having regained the advantage, Joe Ga started to patiently knock out all the visible fire points while waiting for his flanking comrades to get close to the enemy.

The cooperation with Antar was really smooth; while she kept an eye on the vehicle-mounted machine gun, she also utilized the tablet to point out the enemy positions to Joe Ga, greatly increasing his shooting efficiency.

However, as those people pulled back, Joe Ga lying above lost his line of fire, unable to hit the enemy despite knowing their location.

Rick, seeing Joe Ga cease fire, urgently said, "Sir, let us go up, we can wipe them out."

Joe Ga gave Rick, eager as a leopard, a stern look and said irritably, "It's not your turn, just follow me, and if you really can't hold back, fire a couple of shots."

Upon hearing this, Phil couldn't help but stand up and fired a burst at the dirt mound, but apart from a few sparks scraping off the pickup, he didn't hit anything substantial.

After Ayu had rendered the pickups on their side of the dirt mound useless, she ceased firing.

This devilishly effective woman turned back, looked at the restless Rick and Phil, grinned, and said, "Do whatever the boss tells you, be obedient!"

Just as Rick and Phil reluctantly nodded, Antar suddenly exclaimed, "Boss, they're waving a white flag, they're surrendering, what do we do?"
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Joe Ga walked over to look, and saw on the tablet, a person tearing off the hem of their robe, tying it around a rifle and frantically waving it.

He frowned, looked at it for a while—the drone was a bit far—but no matter how he looked, he felt some of the guys looked familiar.

Hearing 'ready' from the headset, Joe Ga thought for a moment and said, "Dragon Gecko, call out to them, they've surrendered, tell them to line up and come down..."

Speaking of which, Joe Ga said to the equally puzzled Antar, "I don't know if it's just my impression, but I feel they look a bit like those bastards from the Middle East we saw on the Kenya Great Plains."

Antar scrutinized the enlarged image and said, "It should be them, 7 people, robes, headscarves, one of them limping a bit."

Hearing this, Joe Ga counted the time and said in disbelief, "Aren't these guys' retaliatory actions ridiculously fast?

We just got here and they've already followed us? The straight distance from Kenya to Central Africa is almost 1500 kilometers, how did they manage that?"

Antar listened and shook his head, "I think they aren't here for us. Considering their setup, they seem to be here to hunt, and only Namo is worth their effort here."

Joe Ga listened but still had some trouble understanding the actions of these guys.

What he did not know was that earlier today, on the Kenya Great Plains, because he had made a call to an acquaintance in the Kenyan military, several Middle Easterners who were flying a plane there were expelled by Kenya.

These people, unprepared, could only charter a plane to Central Africa; in fact, they nearly arrived in Ndele right after Joe Ga and his team.

After Joe Ga and his team left following a press conference at the airport, these Middle Eastern men landed there, then spent a lot of money on two SUVs and advanced equipment, driving over a hundred kilometers south to meet with the forces 'Zetaka' had prepared for them.

Joe Ga's previous judgment was actually not wrong. Currently in Central Africa, no one dared to disrespect him, at least until the arms from Glorious Society arrived and their 'rebellion plan' took shape—no one dared to oppose him.

However, the Middle Eastern tycoons gave too much, their target merely a lion...

These volatile Middle Easterners, while using high-tech equipment to search for Namo, accidentally stumbled upon Manlo and his team. Their first thought was to kill and silence them.

But when they realized the enemy was too strong and they might not be able to overcome them, these Middle Eastern tycoons quickly softened, not even daring to attempt a risky breakout with the remaining vehicles, very much in the style of those 'big countries' drowning in oil wealth.

At this moment, Karman was also filled with irritation, but he knew if his side chose to assault the mound without heavy firepower coverage, casualties were almost inevitable.

For a few clueless poachers, sacrificing his own men's lives was completely unnecessary.

Hearing Joe Ga's command, Karman held back the raging 'Rhino' and then shouted loudly in Sango toward the mound...

But soon there was a call in English from above...

"We are the Dubai Consortium, we came here to aid, who are you people, why are you attacking us?"

Karman didn't even know where Dubai was, let alone have any understanding of it; impatiently, he fired a burst of bullets toward the mound and shouted loudly, "Drop your weapons, hands up, come down, any sudden movement and I'll kill all of you..."