Early the next morning, the Four-Country, Five-Region Joint Anti-Drug Operations officially entered the implementation phase.
Inside the Operations Command Centre building, the principal heads of the participating countries' action groups sat on the dais, led by Zhou Quan.
Before each of them stood their own national flag and the flag of their police department.
Set into the centre of the front of the dais was an emblem formed from maps of the four countries, representing the joint nature of the operations.
Below the five members of the Four Countries and Five Places operations leadership, including Zhou Quan, Yu Ping, and the Thai police lieutenant general, stood all the team commanders about to take part.
"The opening strike of our four-country, five-region joint operations will target the drug trafficking organizations entrenched in the Golden Triangle that threaten the security of our respective countries' borders."
Zhou Quan surveyed those below with a sharp gaze, his grave, steady voice carrying through the sound system to every operations commander from the Four Countries and Five Places.
"In accordance with yesterday's work arrangements, we will now clarify each side's assignments and intelligence."
The instant Zhou Quan finished speaking, Jing Jinxian used the Four Countries and Five Places temporary liaison intranet to send the compiled intelligence to the tactical tablets of every commander present.
Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Thailand would jointly strike the Nuo Ka Group, the Puzha Group, and the Eight-Faced Buddha Group.
Myanmar would handle the Shapuqiu Group, while Laos would handle the Kangsucha Group.
At that moment, the intelligence provided to commanders at every level across the Four Countries and Five Places contained the following.
It included not only the five major drug lords' secret strongholds in the Golden Triangle Special Administrative Region, but also their drug factories in other nearby areas,