Baghdadi sat on the carpet in the room, watching his two sons fight over a toy gun.
He smiled as he watched his two sons.
They were his seventh and eighth children.
Both were born to his third wife.
Baghdadi was very clear about what he wanted.
And also very clear about what he was doing.
In his line of work, it was possible to meet a violent end sooner or later.
Therefore, continuing the family lineage became extremely important.
That's why he married four wives and was desperate to have children.
Up until now, he already had nine offspring.
Ever since the attack on the "People's Power" failed that day, he had been warned by the Central Intelligence Agency that Song Heping might be coming to seek revenge.
He had no previous grudges with Song Heping.
He had brought this calamity upon himself by following orders from the Secret Action Department of the Central Intelligence Agency.
He, Baghdadi, did not usually regard a PMC company as a threat.
With thousands of guns under his command, should he be afraid of a small PMC company?
But after some investigation, he realized he had stirred up big trouble this time.
This Song Heping was not an ordinary person.
In just a few years, he had grown an obscure PMC company into a formidable one, secured US Army logistics transportation contracts, and managed to hold his ground in the northwest, unafraid of the Kurd Armed forces; even the Freedom Army that once roamed the northwest border was reportedly taken down by him.
What truly chilled him was being told by old members of the "Salafi" brigade he had gathered that they knew this person.
It was he who led a squad to directly take out a stronghold near the water station, killing over a hundred people.
Hearing this, Baghdadi immediately became anxious.
He decided to hide in Siria.
After all, the Song name had influence in Illiguo, not here.
After coming here, Baghdadi heard a piece of news that made him even more horrified.
A supervisor from the Secret Action Department of the Central Intelligence Agency who was sent to Illiguo to pursue Song Heping and his action team were ambushed by Song Heping on the way to the Green Zone from the airport; the supervisor died on the spot, several members of the action team were killed, along with a few from the security detail of the naval and land forces.
Madman!
Baghdadi's current assessment of Song Heping had risen to the level of insanity.
That's Illiguo!
It's American territory; even he wouldn't dare to openly attack coalition forces there.
And the boss of a PMC company actually dared?!
Lucky he hid in Siria.
Otherwise, facing such a psychotic killer, a slip could mean losing his life in Illiguo.
According to intelligence, tonight was the time when Song Heping would join the "People's Power" forces to launch an attack on his organization's stronghold within Illiguo.
But until now, his phone hadn't rung once.
Before leaving Illiguo, he had told his trusted deputy Ahmair to report the situation to him as soon as the fight started tonight.
However, it was already eleven o'clock at night.
The phone had not rung at all.
This made Baghdadi somewhat unsettled.
"Tara, take the children to the next room; I need to pray," he said.
He called his third wife to take the children away.
The noise of the children made it impossible for him to think quietly.
Although he was quite fond of these children on normal days, tonight he needed peace.
"Okay..."
The obedient third wife Tara tactfully took the children away.
After the door closed, Baghdadi sat on the carpet and meditated for a while, but eventually, he could not suppress the restlessness in his heart, and reached out to pick up the mobile phone that was placed to the side.
"Ahmair, what's the situation over there? Has the fight started?"
"Not yet, boss, the CIA personnel have arrived too. After dispersing their forces to the north and south of us, they just vanished into thin air on the drone surveillance footage,"
"Vanished?"
Baghdadi was momentarily stunned.
"What do you mean?"