Chapter 487 The Trouble (First Update)

Siam, the area where the Kra Isthmus Canal is located. From here, you can see the distant waves and the long and narrow valley bottom plain.

A motorcade slowly came to a stop, and Wang Li, chairman of Huaguo Wanda Group, stepped out of the car.

At this time, many construction machinery and workers have gathered here. Wang Li brought the manpower of Wanda Group. Their Wanda Group invested in infrastructure projects such as logistics and hotels for the Kra Isthmus Canal. This was Wang Li's first time here.

However, Wang Li came at the wrong time. As soon as they got off the car, they saw some local residents holding banners and protesting not far away.

"Refuse to build the canal and give me back my land."

"This is our home. Those who destroy the environment are sinners. Our God will not forgive you."

"Why is the compensation so small? I don't agree. The amount of compensation must be tripled, otherwise I won't agree to move."

Through the interpreter accompanying him, Wang Li understood the protests of these locals.

"Mr. Wang, it's a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to the Kra Isthmus Canal investment inspection. I am the chief engineer and person in charge of the Kra Isthmus Canal Zone of Jieke Group, Ba Peng."

At this moment, the Jieke Group personnel who came to greet Wang Li and his party came over.

Ba Pong is a native of Siam and is also the most famous engineering bridge expert in Siam.

In the past, Siam also wanted to build a canal through the Kra Isthmus. Ba Pong was the person in charge. There were many studies on the Kra Isthmus Canal. However, due to various reasons such as national strength and external pressure, Siam later abandoned this canal. The construction is always in the distant future.

Originally, Bapong thought he would never see the canal completed in his lifetime, but then the Jieco Group came.

Compared with Siam's submissiveness, Jieke Group's main focus is a domineering one.

No external disturbances could hinder their plan to build the canal, which gave Babon hope to succeed in building the Kra Isthmus Canal.

"Hello hello."

Wang Li did not dare to neglect and quickly reached out to shake hands with Ba Peng.

"Mr. Papon, these..."

Wang Li exchanged a few pleasantries and pointed at the people holding banners.

"Hasn't this land been settled yet? If we start construction, there won't be any trouble!"

Wang Li was a little worried. Because of the movie "The Wedding Dress" produced by Jieke Group last time, their Wanda Group got the opportunity to invest in infrastructure in Indochina, and was on the list of friends of Jieke Group.

Among them, the Kra Isthmus Canal is undoubtedly the top priority. Although Wanda does not have any shares in the canal, their participation in logistics, hotels, greening, highways, etc. on both sides of the canal has also made them a lot of money. At the same time, this is also a business card to show itself in Indochina.

When others see that you can even participate in important projects such as the Kra Isthmus Canal, they will definitely take a new look at the strength of Wanda Group. In the future, they will be able to do better business in Indochina and gain more market share.

"Mr. Wang is overly worried. The Kra Isthmus Canal and the surrounding land have been purchased by our Jieke Group, and the amount has been fully compensated to the locals. Local people like them came to protest, but some people are greedy and there are foreign forces supporting them. Just making trouble."

Ba Pong said calmly that the Jieko Group was not short of money, and the supplementary amount for acquiring these lands was sufficient. For this reason, several local corrupt Siamese officials were also removed.

Corruption is rife in Siam. The construction of the airport expressway was not completed for ten years, and 80% of the funds were unaccounted for. This situation abounds.

But even if the Jieke Group gives enough money, people's hearts are still not enough and they always want more.

"Warning, all outsiders should leave the canal area immediately, otherwise it will be regarded as an attack and we have unlimited rights of self-defense."

Suddenly, a large number of troops appeared on the scene to drive away the protesters.

In the Kra Isthmus Canal, the Jieko Group stationed two divisions here, with strong troops, and it was easy to mobilize troops.

As the muzzles of black holes were pointed at each other, the faces of the protesting locals turned pale.

Faced with the fact that the Jieco Group was about to talk to them about law (shooting) and reasoning (ballistics), everyone turned around and ran away.

In Siam, they had all seen the vigorous and resolute tactics of the Jieko Group. When they saw that the Jieko Group was serious about taking action, they did not dare to stay anywhere.

"The matter has been resolved, Mr. Wang, please."

Ba Peng said to Wang Li who was stunned.

"Is this okay?"

Wang Li pointed to the scene and directly dispatched the troops. This method was too radical.

"This is how we do things. If it were the police, those unscrupulous people would not be afraid."

Ba Pong nodded. After all, this is the south of Siam. This area has been separated from Siam, and the people want to establish an independent country.

When the Jieco Group was at war with Siam, the separatists here were cleaned up by the Jieco Group. However, the police could not suppress these people.

Wang Li was speechless. Thinking of Jieke Group's experience of growing up in the flames of war, it was reasonable to think that it would behave like this.

Entering the canal construction site, there are large-scale construction projects everywhere.

Various construction machinery is leveling the ground, clearing trees, and pouring cement. The roar of machinery is endless, and it is a lively scene.

Wearing a safety helmet, Wang Li glanced at the planned canal excavation area.

"What's this."

Wang Phosphorus's eyes widened, but he saw that in the planned canal area, large areas of earth and rock had collapsed, and a huge canyon was formed, several kilometers long and hundreds of meters wide.

In the canyon, a large number of engineering machines with eight spider legs were dug deep into the rocks and soil. They were converted from spider main battle mechas and were digging the soil. When they encountered huge rocks, they used their spider legs to continuously hit them and then drilled through and broke them with the crushing drill hammer installed there.

In the middle of the spider mecha, the position where the machine gun was originally installed was changed to a hydraulic mechanical arm.

Two huge buckets loaded pieces of soil and rocks into the huge bucket on the back, and then these debris were transported to the ground one by one through a huge conveyor belt.

In order to bear this huge transportation volume, even this conveyor belt has been modified, so that tons of soil and rocks can be easily transferred from the canyon to the ground tens of meters high, and then transported away by various excavators and trucks.

"Using spider mechas for civil engineering work is so grand."

Wang Lin felt his eyes were opened. The spider main battle mecha was hailed as the king of the new generation of ground warfare. One of them could easily knock down dozens of armored vehicles. It was modified to dig soil and clear silt, which was something Wang Lin could not even imagine.

Bapon shrugged and said, "But it's very efficient, isn't it!"

"It's too efficient. It took such a short time to dig out a canyon several kilometers long, and it's so deep. It's really amazing."

Wang Lin was full of emotion and felt that he had learned a lot today.

Bapon didn't say anything on the side. In fact, this canyon was not dug by the spider mecha, but was dug and formed by the secret digging machine of the Jeko Group. They came here just to do the final blasting to collapse the inside of the canyon that had been hollowed out.

In fact, Bapon himself was very curious about the mysterious digging machine. The principle of this efficient digging was far inferior to the efficiency of ordinary shield machines. Unfortunately, it was not within his authority to know.

"According to Siam's original plan, the construction of the Kra Canal was planned to take 8-10 years, but our Jieke Group does not need it. According to our plan, the canal can be connected in a year or two."

When Bapeng said this, he couldn't help but feel very proud. In the past, the Kra Canal built by Siam was designed to be only 400 meters wide and 25 meters deep.

The Jieke Group's plan is more daring. The canal is 700 meters wide and 55 meters deep. If it weren't for the mysterious underground excavation machine, such a large amount of work would be amazing.

"Mr. Bapeng, I admire your company's strength. I hope we can have a happy cooperation."

Wang Lin was originally a little worried that the canal would die. Now seeing the strength of the Jieke Group, he finally felt relieved and was full of expectations for future cooperation.

Once the canal is started, it will be a very lucrative investment for the Wanda Group.

"Happy cooperation."

Bapeng smiled and agreed. Suddenly, a loud noise came from the coast, which scared everyone present.

"What's going on?"

Bapon frowned. The assistant next to him answered the phone and whispered something in Bapon's ear.

As he listened, Bapon's face looked a little bad, and finally he was furious: "Bullshit, he even recognized the wrong dock. Do you think I'm stupid? It's purely intentional."

"Mr. Bapon, what happened?"

Wang Lin had a bad feeling in his heart.

"A cargo ship from Temasek hit our temporary dock. They said that the cargo ship was seriously damaged and the bottom of the ship was leaking. It needed temporary repairs and refused to move the ship."

Bapon looked very unhappy. In order to build the Kra Isthmus Canal, the Jeko Group found a suitable place on the coast and built a dock. Ships from the sea could dock here, and various cement, steel, gasoline, diesel, spare parts, food, etc. could be transported directly to the canal construction site by train through the built rails.

Now this dock is blocked by a cargo ship from Temasek, and the transshipment work must be hindered.

"Temasek is anxious."

Wang Lin also understood what was going on. The Strait of Malacca controlled by Temasek was threatened. Once the Isthmus of Kra Canal was built, the number of ships sailing through the Strait of Malacca would be reduced by at least half.

Now that the freighter hit the temporary dock, it was obvious that Temasek wanted to obstruct the construction of the Isthmus of Kra Canal by the Jeko Group.

"These guys dared to come to us for trouble. Call the headquarters immediately to report the situation and let the army follow me."

Bapon gritted his teeth and was furious.

A large number of troops gathered, and the Spider main battle mechas that were originally working in the underground tunnels also replaced the general mechanical arms and replaced them with various weapon systems, and rushed towards the dock.

When Bapon led the team to the dock area, they saw a huge freighter. The bow of the ship hit the dock. The cargo ship was damaged, but it was far from sinking. However, the other party did not move, blocking other ships from docking normally.

On the side of the ship's deck, a group of Temasek crew members were seen yelling at the Jake Group staff below.

"Mr. Bapon, these Temasek crew members refused to get off the ship."

The dock manager hurried over to report the situation.

"If they refuse to get off, we have the final say here. Take them down for me. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot directly."

Bapon's eyes turned red with anger. He picked up the intercom to communicate with the officers of the Jake Group's army.

Not long after, the whistling sound of a helicopter came from the sky. As a helicopter hovered over the freighter, several genetic warriors jumped down and directly attacked the freighter.

Accompanied by a few gunshots, a group of Temasek nationals soon trembled and were escorted down by the genetic warriors.

Wang Li, who was watching this scene, could see the scarlet blood stains that had not yet dried on the reproductive equipment of the genetic warrior. It was obvious that someone had resisted on it and then died tragically at the hands of the genetic warrior.

Seeing the cold gaze of the genetic warrior, Wang Li shrank subconsciously, and was even more impressed by the iron-blooded style of Jieke Group. Not only the top management of Jieke Group was tough, but also the middle and bottom levels were like this.

Most forces, faced with such a situation that could easily cause national disputes, would choose to argue with each other and mediate through various channels.

Ba Pong kicked the Temasek crew member who was being escorted hard and ordered loudly: "Send these people back to the prison cell in Zen. I will make them regret what they have done. In addition, move this cargo ship immediately with a tugboat." Come on, clear out the dock."

As the cargo ship was towed away, the incident quickly escalated.

The construction of the Kra Isthmus Canal by the Jieco Group itself has attracted global attention. Now, with the collision of a cargo ship and the death of a crew member, the incident has quickly made headlines in major news, especially the Western media, which spared no effort to publicize and hype Jieco The group’s tyrannical behavior.

"The Jieko Group illegally killed and detained Temasek crew members with the intention of suppressing maritime freight transport, which deserves the vigilance of every seafarer. 》

"The Temasek government issued a complaint against the atrocities committed by the Jieco Group, calling on the Jieco Group to stop and compensate the dead crew members. 》

"The family members of the deceased cried out and demanded that Jieke Group pay one life for another. 》

"The latest information is that the Jieke Group is mobilizing warships from the five countries of Zen, Siam, Annan, Lancang, and Chenla to gather in the Gulf of Siam. 》

As pieces of news came out, the situation in Southeast Asia heated up instantly.

When the news came out, Jieke Group had already mobilized its troops.

Located in Songkhla, the southernmost tip of Siam, the Jieko Group has assembled a large number of troops. The first to be deployed there was the Fifth Group Army.

The group army has three infantry divisions, the 79th, 80th, and 81st, the 4th Mountain Division, and the 5th Mountain Division, as well as 3 armored combined brigades and 4 arms brigades, including air assault brigade, artillery brigade, service support brigade, and engineer brigade. Chemical Defense Brigade.

The total strength of the Fifth Group Army reached 100,000, and the troops were all iron-blooded divisions that had participated in the Zen Civil War and the Indochina War.

Especially when the trump card of the 1st Mecha Combat Brigade of the Jieko Group was transported by train to Songkhla, Siam, and a total of 134 Spider main battle mechas appeared.

Not only did Temasek make the whole country uneasy, but it also scared the country of Johor to death.

Johor and Temasek are on the Malay Peninsula. Johor borders Siam, while Temasek is located behind Johor.

Therefore, if Jieco Group wants to attack Temasek, it must first penetrate Johor from the land attack before it can invade Temasek territory.

Seeing the Spider main battle mechas sharpening their knives on the border, the Johor man was sweating profusely and stressed, and urgently mobilized the country's military forces.

At this point, they don’t have much confidence that they can stop the torrent of mechas from the Jieco Group. The threat posed by the spider main battle mecha is too great. As for their old and backward tanks and armored vehicles, how can they stop the Jieco Group? Spider main battle mecha.

Coupled with the fact that the Jieko Group mobilized the naval power of the five countries in the Indochina Peninsula, as well as the Jieko Group's own strong air force, it formed a overwhelming force for Johor.

So, the day after the 1st Mecha Combat Brigade was deployed to the front line, a military exercise was announced.

Johor urgently knelt down to JEC Group and issued a public statement that it did not intend to participate in the conflict between Temasek and JAC Group. The Prime Minister also went to Zen to seek a meeting with JAC Group executives for an explanation.

If the Jieko Group wants to go to Temasek, Johor can help borrow a road to allow the Jieko Group's army to pass all the way to Temasek without any obstruction, and directly sell Temasek, an ally of the Thousand Islands Strategic Alliance.