Chapter 476 The sale of the left hand for the right hand

Dinsol, Baidoa State, has been selected by the Somali Defense Forces as a training base for Somali Defense Forces air force pilots since half a year ago.

Today, the head of this training base is Major Assad, the captain of the fighter squadron of the Air Force of the Somali Defence Force. At the base, there are now four second-hand PC-9 turboprop trainers purchased from the black market for primary flight training for pilots. For the Air Force, an important future force in the National Defense Force, although other party forces were influenced by the influence of Chief of Staff of Hussein on the army, they did not give up the act of mixed sand in it. Now half of the first 50 trained pilots are selected from the whole army of the Somali National Defense Force. The other half is from the armed forces controlled by the Star Organization, including the base guard company, and Chad's training base to participate in the training.

Whether it is Li Mo or Hussein, other party forces can be allowed to extend their tentacles into the air force, but they will not be allowed to have any idea of controlling the future air force.

In order to express the importance to the Air Force, Chief of Staff Hussein came to the Air Force Pilot Training Base for inspection for the second time.

After saying words of encouragement to these future pilots, Chief of Staff Hussein revealed the main contents of this inspection: that is, four Su-22 attack aircraft were brought!

The Su-22 attack aircraft is an export model produced by the former Soviet Union twice on the basis of the domestically equipped Su-17. While selling 40 aircraft to Peru in 1977, it was also sold to four to the Afghan Air Force at that time. However, just two years later, the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The four Su-22 attack aircraft were hidden before they played their role. Later, they were given to Li Mo by the Taliban leader Omar. Now they will become another batch of controllable aircraft at the air force training base.

After inspecting the air force training base, Chief of Staff of Hussein came to Garowe, the capital of Nugal State, where the headquarters of the Northern Military Region is located.

"Welcome the Chief of Staff of Hussein to the Northern Military Region for inspection!" Outside the headquarters, the commander of the military region, Abdul? Val? Colonel Moes took the senior officers of the military region to greet the chief of staff.

As a close concary of Hash, the former chairman of the State Axe of the Puntland Autonomous Region, Moose lost most of the elite of the Puntland First Guard even in the battle to destroy the La Hanwen Resistance Army, which caused Hash to be very dissatisfied. However, after the formation of the Somali Defence Forces, he was still nominated by Hash as the commander of the Northern Military Region. According to the private agreement of several major party forces, the position of commander of the Northern Military Region was obtained by the Puntland Autonomous Region. Therefore, other forces have no objection to the commander of the "defeat" officer.

I'm so grateful that I can't wait for President Hash to know that it's not easy to take this position after taking office. According to President Hash's hint, his task is to gradually control the troops under the Northern Military Region to support President Hash's voice in Mogadishu. But after taking office for a while, Moes knew that this task was not easy to complete.

Among the troops belonging to the military region discussed and decided by the National Defense Commission, the Northern Military Region, like the Southern Military Region, has four infantry brigades. However, because of the special surname of the mechanized forces, the Southern Military Region has two more aircraft brigades, and the Capital Military Region has one more armored brigade outside the three infantry brigades.

Only the strength of the Northern Military Region is the weakest in the three military regions, but in terms of the enemies facing the defense, the Northern Military Region has the heaviest task. Because Somalia's main enemy, Somaliland, is on the side. Plus Ethiopia, which has a territorial dispute with Somalia!

At the beginning, Commander Moes was not dissatisfied because he was weak, and even full of joy. Because the Northern Military Region is the only one of the three major military regions that is not armed with the former Paramin Cooking Army. Without the existence of the former Paraming cooking army, his commander can be said to have a lot of heart. Don't worry about the behavior of Paraming's cooking army to "grab the class and seize power" that is gradually becoming stronger.

But in the face of four teams from different forces, Moes suddenly found a serious problem. That is, he did not have the ability to penetrate any infantry brigade. Because the first thing he has to do is to integrate these teams armed with different forces. Otherwise, these infantry brigades have no combat effectiveness at all. Originally, this is nothing. As long as the headquarters trains the troops, sooner or later, it will be able to integrate the armed forces from different forces into one. Maybe it can also use the excuse of integrating the troops and exerting its combat effectiveness to install its own people in these infantry brigades. However, when he studied the rules for the appointment of officers of the National Defense Force, he had no choice but to find that the military division headquarters could only appoint battalion-level commanders at most, and it must be reported to the staff for the record. As for the appointment of officers at the regimental level and brigade level, they are all in the National Defense Commission.

First, without a large amount of money to bribe, and second, without personnel appointment power, Moes knew that the task ordered by Chairman Hash could not be completed. Later, the strange situation of the National Defense Force made him lose confidence in controlling the army. Because during his eight months as commander of the Northern Military Region, of the four infantry brigades under the Northern Military Region, a total of 12 infantry regiments, were replaced by the National Defense Commission with a total of seven regimental commanders and two brigade commanders. Now the officers who have been replaced are obviously related to Colonel Hussein, the Chief of General Staff.

Later, Mous learned from President Hash that Chief of Staff Hussein and President Yusuf had united and controlled almost half of the forces of the Somali Wehrmacht. Now everyone at the top of the country knows that 7 of the 12 infantry brigades of the Somali Defense Force are recommended by the Chief of Staff of Hussein as commanders. The other five infantry brigades, although the position of brigade commander is still held by people from other parties, the regimental level below the brigade is more or less the commander of the regimental from the former Paramin cooking army. In the face of this 'big trend', Moes also put down the task of Chairman Hash and concentrate on serving as his commander. As long as it is normal military work, he is responsible, but he has no idea of controlling the army, because it is unrealistic.

Two days ago, after learning that Chief Hussein's staff was going to inspect the Northern Military Region, Commander Moose began to prepare. Today, in addition to some officers of the headquarters, the commanders of the four infantry brigades under the command were greeted by the Chief of Staff of Hussein.

When inviting Chief of Staff of Hussein into the headquarters, Mouse noticed that there were many Oriental faces among these people. Especially when he saw the young man who was almost side by side with Hussein, he immediately thought of a person who was no longer a secret at the top of Somalia - Li Mo!

It is said that this 'Chinese Somali' is the actual leader of the Palamin cooking army, that is, the real boss of Colonel Hussein. Many people didn't believe it before, because the Chief of Staff of Hussein did not admit it. However, most of the senior party still believe that this will not be groundless.

"Commander Moh, this is Mr. Li Mo, chairman of the Somali Star Industry Group. He came here today because according to the resolution of the National Defense Commission, there will be an infantry brigade in the Northern Military Region to dress up. Chairman Li is the person responsible for providing the equipment. Your military region can't neglect others!" In the headquarters conference room, Chief of Staff of Hussein officially introduced Li Mo to everyone.

The officers of the Northern Military Region present are all senior officers of the Somali Defense Force. Both of them know more about the things of the upper class. Originally, they were still wondering what the Chinese in casual clothes were doing. As soon as they heard the explanation of Chief of Staff Hussein, they looked at Li Mo differently. His eyes were full of a fiery light.

The resolution of the National Defense Commission on accelerating the modernization of the National Defense Force began to be discussed as early as a month ago, and it has long been a secret in the army. The commanders of the 12 infantry brigades hope to make their infantry brigade the fourth armored force in the National Defense Force. Because that represents not only the improvement of combat effectiveness, but also the improvement of his own influence in the army; the most important thing is that once upgraded to a walking brigade, the treatment of officers and soldiers is much higher than that of infantry brigades.

"Although the troops that will be changed this time are produced in the four infantry brigades of the Northern Military Region, I hope that the troops who will eventually get the change will not be arrogant. Everyone should be clear that China's military spending is very poor. An infantry brigade is standardly equipped with 48 infantry fighting vehicles. With the establishment of our current infantry brigade, 48 infantry fighting vehicles are obviously unsatisfiable. Therefore, it is still part of the infantry brigade that has completed the mechanization. It can be said that in the current formation of the infantry brigade, only the strongest regiment will become a real mechanized force, and the other two regiments will only increase transportation vehicles such as trucks. Therefore, in the machine walking brigade after the reloading, the infantry is still the largest part. It is wrong to think that infantry can be abandoned just because it is equipped with some chariots. In a real sense, our current walking brigade is closer to the motorcycle brigade..." At the meeting, Chief of Staff Hussein made an important speech. Directly point out the misunderstandings of the thinking of many officers below, so that everyone should be wary of this kind of wrong thinking and correct the correct treatment of the new troops such as the 'machine-walking brigade' correctly.

Li Mo didn't say anything. He is now just an arms supplier and is not 'qualified' to speak at the military conference. He can't say it, but it doesn't mean that he can't convey his will. The core content of Hussein's Chief of Staff's speech was discussed with him in advance.

This time to dress up an infantry brigade in the Northern Military Region was the idea put forward by Li Mo at the high-level meeting. After discussion, everyone agreed. With the Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicle, the two infantry brigades originally equipped with the Lion King 1 can be upgraded. However, due to the limitation of production capacity, it was finally decided to replace the first infantry brigade with the Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicle first, and the replaced Lion King 1 infantry fighting vehicle was sold to the National Defense Force. Li Mo is very happy about this kind of left-handed to right-handed business. Although other party forces are very dissatisfied, they can't find a reason to refute. Because in a report submitted by the Chief of Staff of Hussein to the members of the National Defense, there is an 'in arrears'. The content of the arrears is that the infantry fighting vehicles and tanks equipped by the original Paraming cooking army have not been paid. The creditor is naturally Li Mo, a 'Somali businessman'. Now that the National Defense Force wants to use these chariots and tanks, it naturally has to pay for the purchase of munitions.

(to be continued)