Rise of the Argentine Empire

Saint Hérse had originally been full of confidence in wiping out the "Byrd Brotherhood," even naming the military operation "Operation Thunderbolt."

However, after truly issuing the secret military operation plan and seeing the performance of the soldiers in the barracks, he realized that he seemed to have thought too much.

Arriving at the barracks, some were playing cards, some were chatting, and some were drinking, returning to the initial state when they first arrived. It seems that this reorganization by the Ministry of Defense was a complete failure, which is normal.

Saint Hérse thought that his little butterfly could have a larger butterfly effect, which was somewhat disappointing.

Looking at these soldiers, who had gained a lot of weight, they resembled the people Saint Hérse saw when he first woke up.

At least the living conditions were still very good. Their figures had actually returned to their original state, and several people had even been replaced because they had retired.

Okay, they really retired. He finally understood why an entire Ninth Battalion had to be sent. This level of skill really didn't seem to be working. Even Jesus couldn't help Saint Hérse carry this burden.

He finally understood why the commander intended to give him five hundred people to wipe out a gang of less than three hundred people. The incompetence of the Argentine army was not a joke. He now understood a little. Commander Thompson truly had good intentions.

Saint Hérse had thought that he could take down all these people in one day, but now he had to re-formulate the plan and inform Klose to give the factory a short holiday.

Looking at the current training plan of the Ninth Battalion, it was less than half of what it was during the military exercise. Some new recruits were quickly becoming veterans, slacking off and enjoying themselves every day.

If they were to encircle and suppress the gang at the current level, it was estimated that they would suffer heavy losses. Although such a result would be disgraceful, the commander could accept it, but Saint Hérse could not. Therefore, Saint Hérse quickly took action, abandoned the unrealistic idea of a blitzkrieg, and prepared to start a new round of military exercises.

In order to deal with this gang, Saint Hérse could only first ask Cain for help, asking him to help collect more information about the Brotherhood in order to make corresponding preparations. At the same time, he also planned to screen several undercover teams and then recall the veterans. Many new recruits had not even participated in military exercises, which was quite poor and careless.

As for this group of people, he first recalled the veterans in the capacity of the old leader. Hearing that Saint Hérse was going to carry out a secret operation, the retired veterans had no objection and returned directly. It seemed that the veterans had also been bullied by the gang.

The original number of people drawn from the Ninth Battalion, directly two squads of reorganized personnel, was not enough. Saint Hérse quickly screened more than a hundred people from them. Choosing one out of five could still select some suitable people. After all, time was limited. If retraining still didn't work, these people were mostly obedient to command and willing to participate in the operation.

The name of this screening was to hold a football sports meeting. Now the entire country of Argentina was in an era of football craze, so it was not particularly abrupt.

Thompson also used the name of holding a football sports meeting to transfer the one hundred and twenty-three people selected by Saint Hérse in order to prevent Champus and others from noticing and causing some unnecessary accidents.

However, he later discovered that he had overestimated Champus and the others. This is a story for later.

The entire unit was pulled to an abandoned military camp outside the city. Military tents and other various materials were continuously transported over and quickly built.

Saint Hérse planned to spend three or four days first reorganizing these two squads, conducting routine training, and the commander provided the old-fashioned military camp for live-fire training.

Fortunately, Saint Hérse's prestige in the Ninth Battalion was still very high, and the training of these soldiers was also very active, which made Saint Hérse somewhat gratified. At least there was not no change at all, even if it was only a little.

Argentina had not fought a real war for a hundred years, and the level of the Argentine army could only be said to be unusually poor. Of course, Argentina's strength was still very strong, after all, it was one of the two strongest in South America.

Therefore, Saint Hérse conducted ideological mobilization work before the training. Saint Hérse, wearing a military uniform, stood straight and shouted with full energy.

"Comrades, our goal for this operation is only one, and that is to wipe out the Byrd Brotherhood, this evil gang!"

"Our citizens are being harmed by the people of the Byrd Brotherhood. They are robbing our bread…"

"Wait, why are they robbing our bread?" Okay, someone really asked!

"Quiet, wait for the boss to finish," Aragon roared angrily from the side, and it immediately quieted down. Aragon still had some prestige.

"What this soldier said is good. These people are evil. They have robbed the markets of their jobs, collected protection fees, and caused bread prices to rise sharply! Making our families unable to afford bread! This is robbery. This is just a metaphor. They have completely decayed, and I have even seen familiar faces in the Byrd Brotherhood! This is unforgivable,"

Although he knew that the rise in bread prices was actually due to inflation, the fault of the Peron government, he could only pin it on the Byrd Brotherhood. After Saint Hérse finished speaking, the soldiers below really gnashed their teeth. It turned out that the Byrd Brotherhood was the culprit for the rise in bread prices. He already had a feeling, and Saint Hérse struck while the iron was hot.

"They also robbed mate tea and beer, causing their prices to rise. This has severely damaged the beautiful world of Coercion City. We must lock them all up in prison!"

"Send them to prison!"

"Send them to prison!"... The soldiers had already stirred up their emotions. Originally, they didn't think there was anything special about this military operation, but this concerns their own vital interests!

"What if they believe in God? Will God forgive them?" What the hell? Why didn't anyone ask such a silly question before?

"Forgiving them is God's business. Our mission is to send them to meet God!" Saint Hessey roared, blurting out a line.

"Our mission is to send them to meet God!"

"Our mission is to send them to meet God!"

The others were also infected by this sentence, making Saint Hessey's speech even more successful.

At least the ideological problem of training has been basically unified. The next step is to train hard, and at the same time, stimulate greater morale.

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Saint Hessey honestly trained his troops. As for the Plarry factory, he could only temporarily retreat and deal with it after taking down the Brotherhood. First, let Klose close the factory to buy time.

This training was conducted using Saint Hessey's half-baked military exercise experience combined with some urban warfare methods. At the same time, the Brotherhood became increasingly rampant.

In order to stimulate the army's combat effectiveness, he could only frantically exaggerate these evil gang groups, highlighting how many evils they had committed. First, use anger to boost morale and ensure the intensity of training.

After telling too many lies, Saint Hessey almost believed it himself. These days, he was lecturing the team, saying how just this military operation was. Although it was indeed very just, provided that it hadn't bullied Saint Hessey yet. At this time, Saint Hessey didn't have such a high ideological level.

This also greatly stimulated the morale of the entire combat unit.

"Down with the Brotherhood, protect Coercion City!"

"Suffer more in training, shed fewer tears in battle!"

"Capture Mad Dog Rooney alive, arrest the criminals!"

"Let them see the iron fist of the City Guard, let them see what 'iron bars and tears' are!"

"Down with Byrd, take back our bread!" Later, this slogan became the most famous, after all, no one can forgive a criminal gang that steals their bread.

Saint Hessey "invented" one catchy slogan after another. Not to mention, it still felt a bit cool when said in Spanish, except for the last sentence.

The high morale also made the cooperation of the combat team better and better. Saint Hessey divided them into four teams, each with 30 people, to conduct confrontation exercises. Overall, it was okay.

Then, he used new equipment such as disarmament, various fighting methods, raids, door breaching, shouting, escorting, sneak attacks, smoke bombs, tear gas, and other new equipment, combined with night operations and other methods to make up for combat effectiveness. In order to lower the expectations of this team and prevent them from underestimating the Brotherhood, he exaggerated their combat effectiveness and listed them as a vicious criminal gang.

The slogans for shouting surrender were also a bit interesting, such as "Disarm and we won't kill, we don't kill prisoners."

"We won't catch you and feed you to the pigs."

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And so on.

Saint Hessey selected a few people who looked more like hoodlums, with fiercer faces, to sneak into the Brotherhood first, preparing to carry out a coordinated internal breakthrough.

The rest was just tedious training exercises. Strength training and physical exercise were already too late, so he treated it as a special operations method.

Saint Hessey's knowledge of military operations was limited to movies, so Saint Hessey searched his brain for memories, as well as the methods of the world's most powerful Russian black forces, to conduct simulated exercises.

It can be seen that the effect was not bad, and his subordinates admired Saint Hessey even more. It turned out that Saint Boss (Aragonese) not only knew military training and health preservation, but also knew how to fight.

Aragon had been the squad leader for several months. Although the training intensity was not that high, there was still some training, so the original squad members were also the best. Saint Hessey was a little gratified. Growth always comes unexpectedly.

The second was to start with military equipment, asking the commander to get all the bulletproof vests and bulletproof helmets to prevent these people from encountering any shotgun bullets.

In short, Saint Hessey had made full preparations and was waiting for the right time to knock out this group of criminals and restore a clear sky to Coercion City.

It is worth mentioning that Saint Hessey's idea of an intelligence agency in his mind is becoming more and more mature. These retired veterans are very suitable. He really found a few talents, lurking and combat leaders.

Anyway, Argentine veterans really have no status. Even if they saved a little money when they were soldiers, they would soon spend it all, and they couldn't find a suitable job. If they hadn't gone to college before, it would be even worse.

Coupled with the two-year window period, they even developed bad habits in the army. It is said that there are quite a few veterans who have joined the Brotherhood, which is also one of the reasons why Saint Hessey is cautious. Even if the training is lax, there must be a small part of people who are more disciplined.

Expect the enemy to be lenient, despise the enemy strategically, and value the enemy tactically. This is also the concept that Saint Hessey instilled in this special combat team.

"We must not have mercy on the enemy, thinking that we can influence them. We must arrest each and every one of them, have them tried by the court, and send them to prison. These social scum should not exist in our great Argentina."

"I call it, physical salvation."

"We want bread, not the Brotherhood," the soldiers below silently added in their hearts.

Feeling that there was no major problem with this military operation, Saint Hessey looked at the squad soldiers who were working hard to train and confront each other. Fortunately, the weather was not very hot, and the sun was not strong, otherwise he was really afraid that they would suffer from heatstroke.