Capítulo 1554: Chapter 1263: Overt and Covert

The competition in Sangha Town continues, and Boss Qiao is still shuttling back and forth in the simple stadium every day, cheering for those athletes…

It’s like a festival that lasts more than a month. The joyful atmosphere spreads from Sangha Town and even extends throughout Central Afrika.

The promotion strategy proposed by Qiao Liang has already started to show effects, as P.B. Video Site broadcasts the scenes from Sangha Town to the entire Africa, and even the whole world.

Even in the most backward parts of Africa, people with mobile phones can connect to a simple projector, projecting images onto a white cloth for everyone to watch together.

P.B.’s sports festival doesn’t have those cumbersome rules; it’s all about simplicity: higher, faster, stronger…

Things like weight categories don’t exist; the guy who can win in a single event must be the strongest one.

This makes the competition more intense, and conflicts almost never stop…

When running, you push me, I hit back, and the referee acts blind and doesn’t care at all.

Only if you cross the finish line intact do you deserve the champion’s medal!

The most comical 5000-meter race ended up with no one on the track, and all the spectators were cheering for the athletes fighting.

Boss Qiao, facing this funny situation, has no intention of stopping it…

Go ahead and fight, the anteater acting as a referee’s assistant looks on, just ensures they don’t cross the line…

They are all guys with hormones surging, a punch or two won’t kill anybody, and after the game, everyone has a drink—whether they become friends is unknown, but at least they will not be enemies!

This completely different situation from normal sports events has attracted a lot of attention…

Some pretentious people shout negative words like ‘barbaric,’ but P.B.’s online statistics show that the viewership is indeed skyrocketing, and the number of registered members on the website is also surging.

Various bizarre competition scenarios excite everyone following the competition, while sometimes also leaving people in disbelief.

Sponsors are overjoyed and consequently begin to promote together, hoping to increase advertising effects.

A guy from a remote province in Congo, because he was knocked down six times in the 15,000-meter race yet still resiliently crossed the finish line…

Then this guy was spotted by a Chinese sports goods company from afar, and an onsite representative from Northern Industries directly signed a sponsorship agreement worth $200,000 with him.

This is the economic benefit brought by traffic; once the athletes discover the ‘gold mine,’ the competition becomes fiercer!

The unfortunate Dorian, relying on his skills and the Rhino’s gaze from outside the ring, fought into the top six in the freestyle fighting competition, but was eventually punched out of the ring by a strong Cthulhu Tribe man.

In the boxing arena, P.B.’s seed player ‘Executioner’ faced a heavyweight from Seville National Team and was knocked out cold in the ring.

Facing the opportunity to change destiny, those tribal talents and professional athletes, regardless of consequences, fought fiercely in the competition, stronger than elite soldiers.

A Cthulhu devil from the Ayu ethnic group, a big Bai Xiong from Seville National Team…

It’s not that Dorian and the others don’t want to win, but there really is a gap in hard capabilities!

However, losing in traditional competitions doesn’t mean they can afford to lose in military competitions!

Starting from the shooting competition, P.B. began to sweep up medals, even the little girl Adel won a bronze medal in the pistol competition…

Then when it switched to the CQB competition, the situation became many times more intense.

The exercise bullets used by P.B. are claimed to be non-lethal, but that is under the conditions of wearing proper protection. Most soldiers, to keep their body flexible, gave up ballistic plates, making the scene behind them as tragic as actual combat.

In almost every competition, someone is carried to the hospital, and P.B.’s T1 teams lost more than half of their members after the competition ended.

However, their achievements were truly glorious; facing those masters sponsors have found from all over the world, P.B.’s special forces swept the top six in the CQB competition!

Though those mentioned above highlighted more the individual qualities of soldiers and team coordination, the most attention-grabbing project in the competition is actually the hundred-man company-based village attack and defense battle.

There are many villages left by the tribes that migrated to Sangha Town in the jungle, with various terrains, fully meeting actual combat needs, and due to the expanded combat range, many tactical changes can be used.

Professional filming teams install plenty of cameras in the villages and surrounding jungles, broadcasting the captured footage directly to the network through both live broadcast and post-editing.

These engagements shown through a third-party perspective, in a form completely close to actual combat, have a high technical content and have attracted the attention of military forces from countries worldwide.

Actually, everyone is curious about P.B., as the most invincible appearance of P.B. mostly displays a combat mode of the United States Army…

Land-air integration, special forces decapitation, and by the Yemen period, it even developed into a tri-service integration of sea, land, and air, with sea and air cover and ground composite battalion advancement as a modern mode.

The battle organized by Boss Qiao in Yemen is something that even the United States Army hasn’t achieved in actual combat.

The closest example would be the Gulf War, but the combat effectiveness and efficiency demonstrated by the Yemen composite battalion were many times stronger than those of the United States Army during the Gulf War…

There is indeed a time gap here, but everyone actually knows that the actual combat mode P.B. demonstrated in Yemen could possibly be the mainstream of future warfare.

Naval long-range strikes, critical air support, heavy drone usage, efficient advancement of composite battalions…

Except for the non-usage of various reconnaissance satellites, ballistic missiles, and ultra-limit weapons, the Yemen battlefield gathered all the elements of modern warfare!

The urban security warfare mode in Mukalla was even more like a textbook!

Humanitarian efforts coupled with large-scale propaganda, followed by intelligence gathering, aerial reconnaissance, and agent reconnaissance, culminating in a forceful decapitation strike by the special operations advertising team equipped with law enforcement recorders…

Not only were civilian casualties rare, but those advertising mercenaries were fighting with increasing confidence and a sense of honor.

Initially, they were unwilling; after all, it’s warfare, with daily clock-ins and having to wear a law enforcement recorder. Getting docked pay for swearing — who can put up with that?

But the reality is, as long as the money’s right, with such absolute superiority, nothing is impossible.

This kind of warfare, NATO has had such an advantage for so many years, but has never achieved it.

So when the competition started, even armies from various countries began organizing to watch the live broadcast…

Mercenaries under the banners of various sponsors came from different military contractors. After hearing this news, they received hints from other places and began to organize a coalition army to vow to compete with P·B.

For sponsor choices, Boss Qiao couldn’t care less.

He even creatively organized a group of bored individuals, clad in heavy armor with cameras, to play civilian roles in military drills, adding confusion to both sides of the combatants.

He also organized two rear command posts, allowing the attacking and defending sides to draw lots before the competition — with a stroke of luck, they could draw the right to use drones or even get mortar support.

This completely immersive approach elevated the realism of the military exercises to the maximum!

The competition adopts a points system — three points for the winner, one point for a draw, and zero points for the loser.

With company-level, 100-person confrontations, tactical coordination is key. However, exercises are ultimately not real combat, so some balance methods are needed; otherwise, it would be too disadvantageous for the attackers.

Thus, the attack and defense are determined by drawing lots, and the attacking side can randomly withdraw one-third of the ‘lucky ones’ from the defense side before starting the match, thus balancing the combat difficulty for both sides.

In the first match, the Sand Lizard Squad led by Tubruq’s Hasan took on the role of the defenders, giving a lesson to the attacking Brazilian squad with warriors from the desert…

The guy had his people disguise as civilians, mingling among those disruptive civilians…

When the attacking squad approached, the disguised ones pretended to flee as civilians, not only obstructing the line of fire for the attacker’s machine guns but also pulling out a few grenades when close, taking out the most vital machine gun positions.

This is the most challenging aspect of security warfare: distinguishing between civilians and opponents, which is a skill modern frontline soldiers must learn.

Upon encountering suspicious individuals, maintain a distance, conduct a strip search, and control them out of harm’s way…

It’s troublesome, but it can save your life!

The Brazilian squad made a mistake, so they lost miserably!

A hapless guy, wanting to be lighter, skipped wearing leg armor, and got shot in the thigh, then hobbled from the field howling until he exited…

The Brazilian fellows’ plight steeled everyone!

Meanwhile, global military observers, as soldiers watched senior leaders inquiring excitedly about P·B’s exercise equipment, felt a chill down their spines.

What nobody anticipated was that after three rounds, the top three weren’t the strong teams everyone expected…

Mostly never seen by the public, the Bat United Armadillos temporarily held first place, Tubruq’s Hasan-led Sand Lizards placed second, and remarkably, the third was a Congo River Bank Guard led by two elderly Chinese men.

P·B’s ‘internet celebrity special forces’ and those big-country T1 teams comprising ordinary soldiers got shredded in these high-intensity matchups. Yet, Seville’s veteran paratroopers remained consistently mid-upper tier…

The much-anticipated mercenary coalition teams suffered the worst defeats!

The two coalition teams centered around Triple Tian Peng and Titan International, after three matches, were wiped out, turning them into a laughingstock.

Then, naturally, the ‘elite’ teams from the Island Nation and the Peninsula organization became scapegoats, getting kicked out of the team by their angry European and American patrons…

These guys, after losing, started calling to recruit people worldwide. Soon, dozens of retired Marine Corps and Rangers rapidly flew from America to Central Africa, intending to counter the formidable P·B teams!

This village street and alley warfare, differing from the ‘door-kicking’ kind, exposed a more brutal side of warfare to the world.

No matter how strong the team is, it is impossible to remain unscathed in this kind of combat.

The terrifying ‘casualty rates’ left the globally attentive military collectively speechless!

It’s been far too long since anyone showcased this type of combat to the world…

The just concluded Aleppo defensive battle, in that lengthy period, had only over 1600 casualties combined from both attacking and defending sides.

Yet, if adopting P·B’s modeled street combat mode, regardless of how many people there are on either side, in a do-or-die clash, less than a tenth would likely emerge unscathed.

Currently, very few teams in the world can endure such extreme brutality!

And just when the world focused on Sangha Town, Boss Qiao, in the command center, directed a unit of Lion Squad soldiers, coordinated with a group dressed in Al-Qaeda uniforms to launch a strike in Yemen on a uranium mine illicitly exploited by S-group personnel…

The armadillos played the role of hunted terrorists, with the Lion Squad tasked with hunting them…

Then, after the Lion Squad bravely routed the terrorists, they ‘unexpectedly’ discovered this uranium mine being illicitly exploited within Yemen’s borders.

There, they also found some very advanced early refinement equipment, plus storage facilities with radiation exceeding safety levels, yet completely empty…