In fact, although it was cooperating with the Protector Military Company, the Kolo Liberation Front also had its own ideas at the beginning.
The gold mine that the Protector Military Company exchanged for the weapons it provided was close to the area controlled by the Kolo Liberation Front and two other anti-government armed groups.
It was after the attack that caused McVin Koi's legs to be injured, and after being beaten up by them, they knew that the Protector Military Company was very well equipped, so the neighboring Free Kolo Alliance behaved for a while. Even if there was a conflict with the Kolo Liberation Alliance, they would avoid the Munger Base, where the gold mine was located.
Although after the Kolo civil war broke out, due to a "gentleman's agreement" between the two parties, the Kolo Liberation Front would not harass the areas controlled by the other two anti-government armed groups for the time being, but when they proposed to let the Kolo Liberation Front pass through the government army's area to seize territory, the leader of the Kolo Liberation Front, Sheikh Hassan, was smart enough not to agree immediately, but first wait and see what would happen.
It must be said that those who can survive in the ongoing melee are not too reckless.
Because the reckless ones have long been eliminated.
But everyone knows a little bit about black guys, and they have only a little bit of patience.
But after seeing that the two anti-government armed groups, the Free Kolo Alliance and the Kolo Resistance Army, had entered the central area controlled by government forces and were "unstoppable", occupying most of the central area at once and had begun clamoring to "enter the capital and capture Nassin Dema alive", Sheikh Hassan could no longer sit still and prepared to raise an army to join the "Anti-Nassin Alliance".
Otherwise, he was really afraid that if the two families really broke into the capital, occupied the capital, and most importantly, obtained the government army's sophisticated equipment, then his own Kolo Liberation Front would not be able to get any benefits.
After all, this idea is not too outrageous. After all, Kolo had a history of successful coup d'état with two or three hundred soldiers before...
The two groups had about 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers in total. What if they succeeded in "picking up a bargain"?
Although Sheikh Hassan could not steal the territory of the other two anti-government armed groups for the time being because of "righteousness", if he really led his troops to steal the territory of the government army, Sheikh Hassan was afraid that he would be stopped by the other two groups and "robbed".
Therefore, after much thought and seeing the favorable situation of the anti-government armed forces at this time, Sheikh Hassan made a decision. He sent someone to find Markel Paulson, the person in charge of the Munger base. On the one hand, he wanted to buy another batch of arms from the Protector Military Company. After all, Hei Ge also knew that "sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood", and the military government's equipment is better than theirs. Although it seems that the other two anti-government armed forces have not encountered too strong resistance at present, he is not sure about going out like this.
In addition, he hopes that the Protector Military Company will help him release the borders controlled by the other two anti-government armed groups to prevent the other side from "stealing" his home.
Of course, they don't have much money, but Kolo still has a lot of resources.
In fact, there are more than ten kinds of mineral resources that have been discovered in Kolo, including gold, phosphate, limestone, barite, dolomite, kyanite, garnet, quartz sand, uranium, manganese, bauxite, etc.
Among them, the reserves of phosphate and iron ore are relatively large.
After all, Kolo is the third-largest phosphate producer in sub-Saharan Africa.
The proven reserves of high-quality phosphate ore are 260 million tons, the recoverable reserves are 82 million tons, including a small amount of carbonate ore, about 1 billion tons!
However, most of these phosphate mines are distributed in the coastal area south of Kolo, which is within the control of the government forces.
For example, the Kolo Liberation Front is mostly grassland area. As for mineral deposits, in addition to the gold mine given to the Protector Military Company last time, they also have several mineral deposits, including two diamond mines and another gold mine. These mineral deposits are also the main source of income for the Kolo Liberation Front.
This time, Sheikh Hassan gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, preparing to transfer one of his diamond mines to the West African Mining Company of the Protector Military Company - a company registered by Barron to mine the gold mine.
Anyway, in his opinion, you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. As for mineral deposits, Kolo still has plenty of them. Maybe there will be more mines in the territory he occupies this time.
After all, although they now have a few mineral deposits, the reserves are not high and it seems that they cannot be mined for a few years.
The real profits come from the phosphate mines in the south near the sea. Those mines are larger in scale and more suitable for large-scale development.
This time, Markel Paulson contacted him through Barron's intelligence consultant Nigel Inkster to ask for his boss's opinion.
In this regard, Barron of course suggested agreeing to it. On the one hand, they could expand their interests in Kolo, and on the other hand, they could take the opportunity to recruit more local armed personnel.
Although Africa's excellent regional matching mechanism makes the armies here not very powerful.
But it doesn't mean that there are really no available military personnel. The 100 local armed personnel previously selected by the Protector Military Company, although their quality is slightly inferior to that of the retired soldiers in the past in the UK - mainly in terms of discipline, Brother Hei is really a bit lazy.
But after such a long period of training, plus the treatment provided by the Protector Military Company is far better than those of the local armed organizations, so they can select the best from the best.
Overall, the performance is still good.
Thus, after obtaining the diamond mine, according to their plan, they will recruit about 100 retired soldiers from the local area and another 200 local black brothers, and train them strictly. This should be enough to guard the two mines and "guard the home" for the Kolo Liberation Front.
Currently in Iraq, the British army is withdrawing some troops back to the mainland in bits and pieces. By next year, the scale of the withdrawal will be even larger.
Therefore, it is not difficult to recruit veterans locally. On the contrary, the British government will be grateful to them for helping solve the problem.
And in terms of arms, the black guys definitely don't need the British army's standard equipment. Just buy them AKs and enough ammunition, plus some RPGs and cheap artillery...
Speaking of which, the arms business does have a promising future.
However, the people in Colo that the Protector Military Company is currently facing are not large in scale and cannot be compared with those big arms dealers.
"Also, we need to pay attention to the situation of the civil war in Kolo. I'm afraid that at the beginning, the anti-government forces only caught the government forces off guard. When they reacted, the real war began."
"Yes, this is consistent with our analysis. The total size of the Kolo government forces currently exceeds 5,000 people, and they also have a certain amount of air force and navy strength. Overall, they are stronger than the three anti-government armed forces combined."
This is also a very normal thing, otherwise the government forces would not have been able to occupy the most essential part of Kolo for so many years and suppress the anti-government forces in the remote north.
"If the anti-government forces are defeated miserably, they can contact the other two companies and provide them with weapons and equipment."
This is why arms dealers like war. How can they sell arms without war?