By the Republic Palace pool.
Song Heping was sowhat distracted.
On the other hand, the chef was like a fish in water at this kind of event, clinking glasses with those contractors introduced by Turner, chatting as if they had known each other for years.
What was distracting Song Heping, of course, was the matter of Yusuf.
Whether or not to take on this job was a question worth pondering.
Yusuf had asked him to dinner at his house the following night.
He said it was a gathering of friends.
But in reality...
Song Heping felt it was a forced hand.
To make him make a choice.
His defense company was just starting, and Yusuf was very important to him.
Leaving aside the fact that he could only get his arms supply with Yusuf's help, the arms warehouse and office building his company was currently renting wouldn't have been so easily secured without Yusuf's assistance.
So, Yusuf was not soone he could afford to offend.
Especially if he put himself in Yusuf's shoes, he could quite understand Yusuf's feelings.
Setting aside personal feelings, his uncle's death actually involved the vital interests of the entire lower officialdom of Baghdad.
The big shots didn't regard them as human; they were in danger of being attacked at all tis, and anyone would be afraid and furious in their place.
But to accept the United Security Council's petty security order ant to lose money, sothing he couldn't afford...
Difficult.
As Song Heping pondered these matters, at the other end of the reception, two pairs of eyes were watching him the whole ti.
"Station chief, the more I look at this kid, the more I dislike him."
Thomas's eyes emitted a sinister gleam.
Next to him, Simon was gently swirling the wine in his glass, his gaze never leaving Song Heping.
He didn't like Song Heping.
Since this young man joined "Musician" Defense, he had disrupted Simon's plans more than once.
Yet, Simon was glad to see Song Heping take down the Freedom Army.
It was beneficial for curbing the boldness of the Kurd Ard forces. Those bastards were now daring to talk terms with the interim governnt, demanding all the northern oil fields for themselves or else they wouldn't cooperate with the work of the Arican-led temporary governnt.
Did they think they could claim those places?
Those were the private lands of the Arican energy tycoons!
What made these mountain bandits think they had the right?
They actually dared to make such outrageous demands.
With the Freedom Army's headquarters taken down, the Kurd Ard was like a claw cut off, and that served as a warning: don't think you are invincible in northern Illiguo, nobody dares to ss with you.
Simon had wanted to use this opportunity to stir up so trouble, egg the Kurds on to retaliate against Song Heping's rcenary Group.
After all, Song Heping's rcenary Group only had a little more than three hundred people, while the Kurd Ard had at least over ten thousand troops—the two were in no way comparable in military strength.
If he could provoke the Kurd Ard to attack "Musician" rcenary Group recklessly over the Freedom Army incident, he was sure it would be a spectacular show.
Then, he could use the Kurds' attack on the Arican enterprise oil fields as an excuse to request the US Army to attack the Kurd Ard, teaching those ignorant bandits a lesson.
But what he had never expected was the latest intelligence report at noon, which said that the Mahdi Army had suddenly launched a massive attack against the remaining forces of the Freedom Army. Taking advantage of the Freedom Army's loss of leadership and ensuing chaos, they seized most of their territory.
In just one day, the Madheh Army had taken over a third of the Freedom Army's territory. At this rate, in a few days, the entire territory of the Freedom Army would be under the control of the Madheh Army.
The situation in the north had beco very complicated and delicate.
If the Madheh Army kept fighting like this, their territory would be directly adjacent to that of the Kurd Ard, becoming real neighbors.
The most delicate part of the situation was that the Mahdi Army had ties with the Persians. They had always been at odds with the Kurd people, and now that their territories were adjacent, both sides were watching each other like tigers.
In this case, the Kurd Ard had no energy left to deal with "Musician" Defense.
Simon had been looking at the map all afternoon in his office when he suddenly noticed sothing odd—the situation from last night's "Musician" Defense infiltration of the Freedom Army territory center with a decapitation strike to the day's major attack by the Mahdi Army was now very advantageous for Song Heping's "Musician" rcenary Corps!
With this performance, "Musician" Defense not only lifted the threat of the Freedom Army against their own oil field security but also effectively gave the Madheh Army a huge gift!
Could it be that Song Heping had so under-the-table deal with the Persians?!
Once this thought had ford in Simon's mind, it lingered and grew stronger and stronger.
How could it be such a coincidence?
Looking at the tiline, "Musician" Defense and the Mahdi Army seed to be executing a perfect tactical coordination.
Especially since the intelligence indicated that the reason the "Musician" rcenary Group could easily infiltrate to the core area of the Freedom Army was because the Mahdi Army had caused friction on the border between the two sides a few days before.
In anticipation of an attack from the Madheh Army, the Freedom Army had pulled almost all military forces from the south and east to the northwest direction, leading to gaping holes in their defenses...
The more Simon looked, the more it seed like a conspiracy.
"Send soone to keep an eye on them, see if they have any dealings with the Persians. If you find any clues, make a report, inform the superiors, and then wipe them out."
"No problem, leave it to ."
Thomas was eager to try.
...
"Achoo—"
On the way back, Song Heping sneezed.
"What's the matter?" The driver, who was the chef, asked curiously, "You've been sneezing a lot on the way back from the reception."
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