"Something happened at the border." Jiang Chen looked at Timochenko with a half-smile and threw a newspaper on the table, "Although I guess you already knew."
The headline of the newspaper was the tragedy that occurred on the border between North and South Colombia. The spokespersons of both sides immediately pointed out that the other party was responsible for the attack, making the truth of the whole incident confusing.
To be honest, Jiang Chen was more inclined to believe that the attack was self-directed by the old fox Timochenko. After all, he really couldn't believe that North Colombia still dared to take the initiative to tear up the ceasefire agreement after being beaten to such a state.
However, Timochenko's acting was too realistic. The flashing pupils and tightly clenched fists didn't look like he was acting.
"These scumbags! Shameful liars! They actually tore up the ceasefire agreement! " Timochenko cursed in Spanish that Jiang Chen couldn't understand. At this moment, he was like an angry bull, wanting to crush his teeth.
Although he cursed, in fact, until yesterday, he and his men were also planning whether to cause some trouble at the border to create an excuse to tear up the truce agreement. They just didn't expect that they had the same idea as the people of North Colombia, and they were the first to do it. They even threw a "self-directed and self-acted" label at Jiang Chen.
Regardless of how Timochenko acted, Jiang Chen clicked on the flashing signal light on his watch, leaned back in his chair, and answered a phone call.
The call was from Ayesha.
As soon as they received the news, the Ghost Agents stationed in South America rushed to the scene of the incident. Through the investigation of the clues at the scene, it was preliminarily determined that the attackers were former Colombian Navy Special Forces.
Speaking of which, this special force and the FARC led by Timochenko were old enemies. When South Colombia was not yet called South Colombia, and FARC was still fighting guerrillas in the Andes, this special force was the main force of Colombia's counter-insurgency and anti-drug operations. Many FARC executives died in the hands of this special force.
"I see."
Jiang Chen nodded, hung up the phone with Ayesha, and continued to look at Timochenko.
"It was the North Colombian Navy Special Forces that attacked the border post. You should be familiar with this name."
"… I'll remember them even if they turn into ashes," Timochenko said gloomily.
"I'll lend you my Aerospace G100. You can return to China immediately in the afternoon." After a pause, Jiang Chen continued, "I know what you are thinking, but I will still say the same thing. Stay calm before the opportunity comes."
"They're bullying us, and you're telling me to stay calm? The people below are waiting to see my reaction. Tell me, how can I keep calm? "Timochenko said angrily.
"I'll allow you to take appropriate revenge on them, but no matter what you do, you must remember that maintaining the ceasefire is our bottom line. Before getting my permission, if you tear up the ceasefire agreement without authorization, then you will bear all the consequences yourself. "Jiang Chen stared into Timochenko's eyes and said in a tone that could not be rejected.
The silence lasted for about a minute, and Timochenko finally nodded with difficulty.
"… Okay."
…
In the afternoon, with a faint blue arc, the silver-white Aerospace G100 disappeared above the clouds. Jiang Chen temporarily lent his vehicle to Timochenko so that he could return to China as soon as possible and stabilize the situation in South Colombia.
The six soldiers at the border post were slaughtered, and the walls were sprayed with insulting graffiti.
Such a great humiliation made the pro-war faction in South Colombia almost explode with anger. Even the pro-peace faction who originally supported maintaining the status quo were silent at this moment and were preparing to change their minds. After such a thing happened, everyone's heart was filled with anger, and this anger was getting more and more uncontrollable.
It was impossible to do nothing. After obtaining Jiang Chen's permission for "limited retaliation" and returning to China, Timochenko immediately convened the Supreme Military Commission of South Colombia and formulated a retaliatory counterattack.
Similarly, it was too low-level to launch an attack at the border, and North Colombia must have been prepared. If they were caught red-handed, it would be hard to explain. Timochenko chose to start from another angle and sent more than two hundred well-trained guerrillas across the border.
All power, water, and communication facilities were included in the target of the attack. For a time, North Colombia's power plants frequently caught fire, the entire urban area was without power, and civilian communications were also interrupted from time to time. This gave the North Colombian authorities a headache for a while, and they had to invite the FBA and CIB to help to curb the harassment of these guerrillas.
Of course, this alone was not enough.
In order to calm the anger of the pro-war faction and to prevent themselves from suffering internal injuries, on the morning of December 30th, a military camp on the outskirts of Monteria, North Colombia, suddenly exploded. A total of six soldiers died on the spot, two were seriously injured, and 17 soldiers suffered varying degrees of minor injuries.
North Colombia declared a state of emergency, while condemning the attack in South Colombia as a terrorist act and threatening to use military means to respond to the attack.
Just as North and South Colombia condemned each other for the provocation, NATO suddenly made a new move.
At the NATO foreign ministers' meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, the NATO Secretary-General revealed a piece of breaking news in his speech —
NATO would send four more modern divisions to South Colombia within a year to stabilize the turbulent situation in South America …
"Bernice found a donation, and there are many interesting names on the donor list." Standing in the study of the mansion, Ayesha reported the latest situation to Jiang Chen.
"The recipient is?" Jiang Chen asked.
"The Colombian Unification Foundation is a fund specially established by the North Colombian government to facilitate the receipt of financial assistance from the Democracy Foundation and to purchase arms from North American arms dealers through legal channels." Ayesha gently placed a list on Jiang Chen's desk. "The names of some donors are on this."
Staring at the names on the list, Jiang Chen thought for a moment and said.
"If we make the list public …"
"It doesn't make much sense. This list seems to be semi-public," Ayesha shook her head and said. "And there is no direct evidence to prove that this donation is directly related to the incident that occurred on the border between North and South Colombia."
"I see …" His index finger gently tapped on the armrest of the chair, Jiang Chen looked out the window, and said thoughtfully, "Is there any news from North America?"
"There is one more thing," Ayesha nodded. Ayesha nodded. "The day before the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, the UA Pentagon also held a high-level military meeting. The specific content of the discussion is not clear, but it is said that the topic of the meeting is related to the defense budget … "
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