73: Military trade announcement: The world has a new understanding of the Dragon Country!

The Ministry of National Defense's high-level meeting lasted from 1 PM to 8 PM.

Throughout the afternoon, all tactical arrangements for guerrilla warfare and related military skills training plans were discussed and finalized.

After the meeting concluded and everyone left, Peng Lin specifically stayed behind and went to Marshal Xu Yong'an's office.

"Comrade Peng Lin, your proposal today was excellent!"

"Many senior comrades have praised you highly, constantly lamenting that they are truly getting old!"

"To be honest with you, right after the meeting, several old fellows even came to me to sound me out, asking if you were married."

"When I told them that you got engaged a while ago, and that I was even a witness, a few old fellows actually got angry with me, complaining that I didn't introduce their granddaughters to you!"

"I immediately retorted that it wasn't that I didn't introduce them, but that Comrade Peng Lin himself found a stunningly beautiful girlfriend..."

Inside the office, Marshal Xu Yong'an joked with Peng Lin.

Clearly, he was in a very good mood about finalizing a perfect plan targeting the Bear Empire today.

"Cough, cough..."

Faced with Marshal Xu's teasing, Peng Lin couldn't help but cough twice to cover his embarrassment.

Then, he quickly brought up the main topic, changing the subject.

"Chief, I stayed behind because I have another matter to discuss with you."

"Starting this month, the weapons ordered by Prince Khalid will be successively delivered to the Sha Te royal family via sea transport."

"Currently, the Bear Empire's invasion of Afghanistan is distracting the Beautiful Country's attention."

"Perhaps the Sha Te royal family can publicly announce this order to the international community!"

Peng Lin looked at Marshal Xu and said.

As the world's largest oil exporter, Sha Te, the Beautiful Country has always been wary of the Sha Te royal family possessing strong and independent military power.

Because only if Sha Te's national security remains threatened can it long rely on the Beautiful Country's military power and security protection.

Only then can it be subservient to the Beautiful Country in oil trade and international oil prices.

Therefore, even if the Sha Te royal family spends a lot of military funds, the Beautiful Country has never sold its most advanced weapons and equipment to them.

It even deliberately cultivated and supported the country of Snake-list to be stationed in the Middle East.

Allowing Snake-list to constantly threaten the security of these major Middle Eastern oil producers.

And now, Dragon Country is providing the Sha Te royal family with Guardian rocket launchers with a range of 480 kilometers, giving them powerful military self-defense capabilities.

This clearly breaks the Beautiful Country's strategic layout and geopolitical pattern in the Middle East.

It could even make the Sha Te royal family a country not controlled by the Beautiful Country.

This is a political situation that the White House absolutely cannot accept.

Under normal circumstances, the Beautiful Country would certainly try every means to prevent this arms deal between Dragon Country and the Sha Te royal family.

The White House would not only pressure the Sha Te royal family but also lodge representations with Dragon Country.

Even in the most extreme cases, it might directly dispatch warships under the guise of maintaining stability or counter-terrorism to intercept the transport ships of the arms deal!

With the intelligence capabilities of the Beautiful Country's CIA and its powerful navy, this could absolutely be done with ease!

But now, the Bear Empire's invasion of Afghanistan has provided Dragon Country and the Sha Te royal family with the best opportunity to conclude this arms trade!

And Marshal Xu Yong'an, upon hearing Peng Lin discuss the serious matter, immediately became solemn.

"To have the Sha Te royal family publicly announce the eight-billion-dollar arms purchase order now?"

"This is indeed an excellent opportunity!"

"Comrade Peng Lin, besides setting a trap for the Bear Empire today, you've also created a challenge for the Beautiful Country!"

Marshal Xu's eyes lit up when he heard Peng Lin's suggestion.

In that instant, he already understood exactly what Peng Lin meant!

Because for the Beautiful Country, confronting and competing with the Bear Empire is its primary objective.

Now that the Bear Empire has rashly invaded another country, the Beautiful Country will certainly spare no effort to rally other countries around the world to sanction and confront the Bear Empire.

And Dragon Country and Sha Te are the main targets for courtship by the White House and the Pentagon.

Because the Beautiful Country urgently needs Dragon Country to manufacture weapons and equipment to provide aid to Afghanistan.

It also needs the Sha Te royal family to increase oil production and lower international crude oil prices to economically sanction the Bear Empire, which is also an oil exporter.

This would cause economic problems within the Bear Empire due to huge war expenditures.

So, under these circumstances, even if both sides publicize this massive arms trade order, the Beautiful Country can only grudgingly accept it!

To weaken the Bear Empire, and for the sake of the bigger picture, the Beautiful Country cannot afford to sour relations with Dragon Country and the Sha Te royal family!

"Then let's proceed according to your suggestion!"

"I will speak with Prince Khalid shortly to discuss this matter!"

Marshal Xu Yong'an, being decisive, immediately agreed to Peng Lin's plan.

He had previously been thinking about how to deal with the Beautiful Country's sanctions.

He hadn't expected that Peng Lin had already considered the great power game behind this arms trade order.

For a long time, in international geopolitical games, it was the Beautiful Country and the Bear Empire, two superpowers, playing the chess pieces.

But now, Peng Lin has repeatedly outmaneuvered these two superpowers.

Whether it's the Vietnam War or the Bear Empire's invasion of Afghanistan, there's a very high probability that Dragon Country will ultimately be the biggest beneficiary!

This couldn't help but make Marshal Xu sigh with emotion!

...July 4th.

The Bear Empire's surprise attack on Afghanistan yesterday, disguised as a military exercise, had already shocked the world.

But today, the entire international community was shaken by another major event!

Just now, Sha Te's Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid, unilaterally announced that it had reached an arms purchase contract with Dragon Country totaling no less than 8 billion US dollars, and that the Sha Te royal family would acquire a batch of new Guardian rocket launcher systems with a range of 480 kilometers from the Eastern Dragon Country!

As soon as this news broke, the entire Middle East instantly erupted!

A range of 480 kilometers?

Rocket launcher system?

No matter what, many countries in the Middle East couldn't connect these two terms!

Although their Middle Eastern countries didn't have much culture, they knew that even the Bear Empire's famous Scud-B missile only had a range of 300 kilometers!

As for the most advanced rocket launcher systems of the Beautiful Country and the Bear Empire, they only had a range of thirty or forty kilometers!

What on earth was this 480-kilometer range rocket launcher?

And it wasn't just the Middle East; as the news spread, the whole world was captivated by it!

Because no matter what, this arms purchase order worth 8 billion US dollars was too shocking!

Although the Beautiful Country had reached a 15 billion US dollar arms trade contract with Iran a few years ago.

But that included a series of military skills training, spare parts, and follow-up services, and was not considered a single trade contract.

Moreover, it was the Beautiful Country that concluded that arms sale!

A world superpower!

And now, Dragon Country, as a third-world country, could actually sell 8 billion US dollars worth of weapons and equipment in a single transaction?

This almost amounted to half of Dragon Country's annual military budget, didn't it?

So, as soon as this news broke, it instantly shocked and overturned many countries' perceptions of Dragon Country as a third-world country!

The Sun Never Sets Empire, Gallic Rooster, Prussia, and other Western countries all had question marks on their faces.

For a long time, the Sha Te royal family had been their major patron!

And looking back at arms trade orders over the years, the Sha Te royal family had never ordered such a massive amount of weapons and equipment from these Western powers!

Why did they place such a large order with Dragon Country now?

Even the Bear Empire, which was busy invading Afghanistan, felt extremely envious upon learning this news!

An 8-billion-dollar order!

This was a single arms trade amount that even their Bear Empire had never achieved!

But now, Dragon Country had done it!

For a time, the entire international community instantly updated its perception of Dragon Country's weapons and equipment!

Previously, the world's military perception of Dragon Country was still stuck in the backward stage of 'millet plus rifles'!

But now, with Dragon Country's Brave Warrior Composite Brigade leading the world's army in a new direction of composite development!

And now, having completed an 8 billion US dollar international arms sale!

The world began to re-recognize the Eastern Dragon Country!