Mercenary’s War

Chapter 2387 - 2363: What Major Move?

Even the cheapest shell costs two hundred dollars, that’s Grand Ivan’s cost price plus a two percent discount. If no one can deliver the shells, Gao Yang will have to pay on his own, but if the Houthis Armed Forces or Iran can provide them continuously, that would be ideal.

Grand Ivan joined the Solar System Company, but it is absolutely impossible for him to provide all weapons free of charge; no business operates like that.

Although the specific details still need to be discussed further, the so-called free offer from the beginning wasn’t about Grand Ivan bearing all the weapon expenditure alone; otherwise, his business would be running at a loss.

For the weapons Satan uses, Grand Ivan earns less profit, even zero profit. Due to his relationship with Satan, the weapons he provides now are close to zero profit, but after the Solar System Company acquired shares from the Cicero Family and Morgan, Grand Ivan instead had to increase prices. Why? Because providing weapons was once a favor, now it’s business.

The obligation Grand Ivan has to undertake in joining the Solar System Company is ensuring the supply of weapons at a pure input stage, based on zero profit, and he also has to cover two percent of share expenses, which is directly deducted from the weapon price.

Arms and drugs are the world’s two most profitable commodities. Providing weapons close to zero profit for Satan and the Solar System is a great loss for Grand Ivan, but when Gao Yang discussed shares with Justin and Grand Ivan, he directly used the term "free," because they all know what "free" means. That’s all there is to it.

So when Gao Yang discussed business with Grand Ivan, he used the term "free." In the end, Abdul discussed specific duties and rights with Grand Ivan in detail. If negotiating with other arms dealers, they’d need to clarify everything with specific terms, and "free" would never appear.

However, Justin’s free intelligence is truly free, because intelligence and tangible things like weapons are eventually different. Justin can afford free intelligence costs, but even with a robust foundation, Grand Ivan can’t afford to provide weapons for free; that’s the rationale.

Grand Ivan can’t afford free weapon supplies because, although the weapon costs might be low for him, the transportation costs are exorbitant, and maintaining stable and efficient transport routes costs even more than the weapons themselves.

So who can nearly infinitely provide free weapons? There’s only one answer: a country.

A country at least strong enough in the region can provide all the weapons for a large organization like the Houthis Armed Forces for free and ensure stable and efficient logistics.

For the Houthis Armed Forces and Gao Yang, this country can only be Iran. The Houthis Armed Forces may still fantasize about Russia providing something for them, but Gao Yang knows that only Iran will make every effort to help the Houthis Armed Forces.

Gao Yang truly hopes for Iranian aid to arrive soon.

Living in the temporary camp for five days, nothing happened during these five days, and even though Sana’a’s situation progressed slowly, it moved step by step in the direction Gao Yang hoped for, so he was happy to do nothing.

By the fifth night’s evening, Salim, who also lived in the temporary camp, found Gao Yang and said with a deep expression: "Iran has come today, the first batch arrives tonight."

After speaking, Salim looked at Gao Yang with worry and then whispered: "An artillery battalion came over in civilian clothes; elites from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. I don’t know their specific unit number, but they must be elite!"

Gao Yang could barely contain his joy, but he kept his face straight and said calmly: "Oh, do they have equipment?"

Salim shook his head and said: "No, not yet. These people coming is both good and bad because..." He glanced at Gao Yang with difficulty, then whispered: "The cannon given to you might be taken back; you should be prepared."

This wasn’t good news, and Gao Yang immediately widened his eyes and said solemnly: "Oh, this isn’t very good."

Salim sighed and said: "Initially, there were cannons lacking operators, now there are more hands insufficient cannons. Lavagani and Abdullah requested to use your cannons for themselves, Abdullah refused, but..."

With a bitter expression, Salim said: "I’m afraid Abdullah won’t be able to withstand the pressure and will have to transfer the cannons given to you to Lavagani, so you need to be prepared. Of course, Abdullah will definitely try to prevent this from happening."

Gao Yang was silent for a moment, then responded indifferently: "Hope so, otherwise I will have to discuss it further with Lavagani."

Salim said helplessly: "Forget it, the consequences of you two completely falling out would be severe; it’s merely a few cannons. I’m already working on something, maybe I can mobilize cannons from elsewhere for you. I’ll expedite this matter, and if we truly can’t withstand the pressure here, Peter Ram, for the sake of our friendship, please don’t make things uncontrollable, alright?"

While Iran increasing support is a good thing, Lavagani wanting to occupy Satan’s assets isn’t a good thing, especially since Lavagani didn’t need to demand four cannons but did so anyway; that really isn’t good.

Gao Yang thought about how to intercept Lavagani’s extended hand, or rather how to eliminate his overt and covert competition with Satan.

But regardless of how things are ultimately handled, Salim’s face must be saved now. Gao Yang sighed and said to Salim: "Normally, this isn’t my style of handling things, but since you’ve said it, I must respect you. So as long as we have cannons to use, let Lavagani have them. I’ll take a step back."

Salim immediately replied: "Thank you! Thank you!"

Gao Yang said seriously: "My friend, my concessions have limits. This time I can back down for your sake, but if Lavagani continues like this, I may take countermeasures. I must say this in advance because this isn’t just my issue. Surely, you understand that."

Salim replied repeatedly: "I understand, I understand. I’ll do my best to ensure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again."

Looking at Salim, Gao Yang suddenly said: "Iran dispatched more than just artillerymen, right?"

Salim hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "This is actually top secret, but there’s no need to hide it from you; Iran sent two hundred Special Forces members, and they’ll take major action by tomorrow night at the latest."

"Oh, no wonder."

After a pause, Gao Yang smiled and said: "Can you tell me what major move it will be?"