1929 I am a chaebol in the United States

Chapter 225 Rivers is back (continued)

Hearing that Rivers had returned with his men, Lu Chen was surprised and delighted. Lu Chen had not expected Aziz to unify their forces so quickly. Then Lu Chen remembered that Rivers had only brought back more than 6,000 people, which was a bit unexpected for Lu Chen. He had more than 10,000 troops there, so how come there were only so few left when he returned? Did they all die on the battlefield?

Lu Chen wanted to call Rivers over to ask what was going on, but when he looked at the sky, it was already completely dark. Lu Chen thought about it and decided to forget about it today and solve the accommodation problem for these people first. When Lu Chen sold the building, he bought three buildings. These three buildings are not far apart, only about one kilometer. So Lu Chen said to Eric:

"The dormitory problem is easy to solve. I have two more buildings in Hongshui Company. I'll let Locke take you there in a while."

After Lu Chen finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that Ike had also been sent to Aziz. Fuss had returned, but why hadn't Ike returned yet? So Lu Chen quickly asked:

"By the way, where's Ike? Why haven't I seen him come back?"

Eric said, "Boss, I don't know about Ike. Why don't you call Rivers and ask him!"

Lu Chen slapped his forehead, thinking he was losing his mind. Eric hadn't even been to the Middle East, so how could he know about Ike's affairs? Lu Chen thought for a moment and said to Eric:

"Go back and tell Rivers to come to me tomorrow. I want to know something from him."

Eric nodded to show that he understood. Then Lu Chen asked Locke to take Eric to his other two buildings.

After Eric left, Lu Chen returned to his room. Early the next morning, Rivers came to Lu Chen's house.

Lu Chen met him in the living room, and as soon as they met, Lu Chen asked:

"Rivers, is the war over in Aziz? Why didn't you inform me before you came back?"

Rivers said: "The war on Aziz's side is basically over. When I came back, Aziz was already preparing to establish a country. As for why I didn't inform you in advance, it was because Aziz didn't inform us when he arranged the ship for us to return. We only received the notice from Aziz the day before the ship arrived at the port."

Lu Chen frowned. What did Aziz mean by treating his own people like this after the war?

Actually, it was not Aziz's fault for making such an arrangement. He had seen the fighting power of Lu Chen's men during the war. They were really not comparable to the mob under his command. He was a little afraid that these people would stay in his territory and not leave. That's why this happened.

Lu Chen continued to ask: "Why did you only return with more than 6,000 people? Didn't I arrange for tens of thousands of people there? Where are the others? Did they all die in the battle?"

Lu Chen was not actually worried about the lives of the Americans. He was now worried about the thousands of Chinese and the troops sent by his eldest brother. He was worried that these people would suffer too many casualties on the battlefield. That was something he did not want to see.

Rivers said: "Those people, the oil company came to us some time ago and took away thousands of people, and those people did not come back with us."

Lu Chen felt relieved when he heard that he was chosen by the people from the oil company.

After asking about the things he was most concerned about, Lu Chen asked about Ike.

"Rivers, what about Ike? Why didn't he come back with you?"

Hearing Lu Chen asking Ike, Rivers quickly said:

"Ike, he was detained by Aziz, who said he wanted to help train the artillery."

After hearing that Ike was fine and was just invited by Aziz to be an instructor, Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that something might happen to Ike. After all, Hans and his friends had been with him for several years and they had a good relationship now.

After asking about Ike, he was ready to ask about the situation of Wu Jie and the others.

"Rivers, let me ask you, what about the Chinese soldiers? How are they? Have they returned?"

Rivers smiled and said, "Boss, you are talking about Wu Jie and the others, right?"

Lu Chen nodded, and then said, "Yes, it's them."

"They have also left the Middle East. I heard that they asked Aziz to buy them a boat ticket back to China. I guess they have already returned to China."

After talking about Wu Jie, in order to avoid Lu Chen asking more questions, Rivers took the initiative to say:

"Oh, right, as for the more than one hundred people we sent over there, they didn't come back with us. They were left in the Middle East by Aziz. I heard that Aziz has hired them as instructors for his army."

Hearing that not only were the Red Gate people not all dead, but they were also hired as instructors, Lu Chen was so angry that he almost swore. He really couldn't understand how these people could survive on the battlefield for so long without any military training.

Lu Chen asked unhappily, "After several months of fighting, what are the casualties like?"

Rivers smiled and said, "Aziz's enemies are all weaklings. We have never suffered many casualties in our fight against them. Only the one with the tanks caused us a lot of trouble, causing us hundreds of casualties. The rest did not cause any casualties to us at all."

"We counted the number of wounded brothers after the battle. There were about 400 brothers injured and more than 300 brothers died. Wu Jie had more than 10 wounded and five died. Finally, the group of Filipino Chinese I sent over had heavy casualties. About 30 people died, and almost everyone was injured."

After hearing Rivers' answer, Lu Chen finally understood why the Arabs always lost in the Middle East wars in later generations. Isn't this a typical example of being a bad player who loves to play and has a strong addiction?

Lu Chen was speechless. He had trained a group of soldiers with rich combat experience for the Red Gate. Thinking of this, he immediately became alert. He must not let these people return to the Philippines. If he let them go back to help Wei Zhengyi, it would be too much of a threat to him.

Lu Chen was thinking about it. Just in case, he thought the best place for this group of people would be to go to the battlefield. Thinking of the battlefield, he instantly had an idea. Wasn't the Red Gate currently fighting with the natives of He's East India? Wouldn't it be a good place for this group of people to go?

Thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately became restless. He stood up and shouted to the outside:

"Hans, get ready. We're leaving right away to go to the Huaqing Gang."