Frankly speaking, Zabi Savimbi is a rare young talent in Africa. With his own ability, he was able to get a scholarship from the colonial authorities and then go to Europe to study. This is almost 90% of the time. Nine African heads.
It can be said that if he turned to the colonial authorities and worked in the colonies for a few years, he might even become a high-ranking figure in the colonial government, the kind where one person was inferior to ten thousand people.
And because of this, Zabi also has his own pride, because he found that he even crushed those superior white classmates in study, which gave him great confidence, and Shepard taught by words and deeds. Those moves allowed him to succeed repeatedly when facing the Portuguese regular army. This also gave him the illusion that he could not win in the past because of tactical problems.
Zabi completely ignored the reason why he had been able to succeed repeatedly before. In addition to the direct support from Shepard, the remaining veterans on his hands were quite a few who were educated like him. Many of them even read After high school and service experience in the colonial army, their learning ability and personal quality are already much higher.
But later, as his reputation increased, most of the people he recruited were just farmers who came with passion. Most of these people were illiterate, did not know how to shoot, and many of them could not understand orders. And this was The most deadly thing is on the battlefield!
As for these things, Shepard never mentioned them, nor did Zabi's men mention them, nor did he himself pay attention to them.
After selecting the target and setting the date, Zabi immediately embarked on the path of resistance he chose with his team that was several times stronger than before.
He has firm confidence in the success of the plan, and this seemingly majestic and elite guerrilla team is also full of confidence. After all, things are different now. Before, there were three of us with one gun, and many of them didn't even have clothes. Now, everyone has at least one rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition, and a kettle and compressed biscuits. It can be said that the guerrillas have been completely transformed!
In terms of march planning, Zabi also tried his best to refer to Shepard's plan, such as avoiding dangerous areas and trying to choose sparsely populated areas. However, the problem was that Shepard's previous team led a small-scale operation with less than twenty people. The team traveling through dense forests and swamps will not have any impact.
And now, he leads a team of hundreds. Such a team is lined up in a single column, and each person is more than two hundred meters long with one meter apart. The speed of walking through the swamp forest will be greatly reduced. Plus additional supplies, It simply cannot achieve the effect of Shepard's light carriage and simple obedience.
Fortunately, Zabi is a responsible leader. He always pays attention to the marching status of the team, and constantly runs back and forth to cheer for his men. Therefore, although there are constant problems during the march, at least there is no major trouble.
But then, the problem came. It was not impossible for an armed team of hundreds of people to hide in areas where people were active, but Zabi really couldn't do it. His team soon came into contact with several hunters hunting in the forest.
Zabi did not screen these hunters or control them. Instead, he greeted them enthusiastically, and in order to win over the people, he enthusiastically delivered canned food to the fellow hunters.
After accepting the cans, several hunters turned around and reported the whereabouts of the guerrillas to the colonial police. Although there was a problem with the information transmission link, the colonial police and the garrison did not take the so-called whereabouts of the guerrillas seriously, but The garrison commander still issued alert orders to all his strongholds.
After that, the team had constant problems. Some people fell behind due to marching at night, and some mishandled weapons and misfired. However, fortunately, the team still marched to the outskirts of the target despite bumps and bumps.
Then Zabi began to assign tasks. He divided his team into three parts. The first team created a bomb attack on the road outside the city to attract the Portuguese garrison. The second team was responsible for pretending to attack the police station to attract attention. The third team followed him to attack. Telegraph office.
It can be said that Zabi's plan is very good. If everything can be strictly implemented, then success is actually very simple, but the problem lies in the people who implement the plan!
The team responsible for attracting the Portuguese garrison went very smoothly at first. They used roadside bombs to blow up a truck belonging to the garrison, killing the big fat pig carried on the truck. They also captured the unlucky driver alive, and successfully A patrol of the Portuguese regular army was attracted, and then a group began to fire guns randomly while trying to lure away the Portuguese patrol.
Then, disaster happened!
The team that was supposed to maintain its formation while retreating and fighting inexplicably began to disintegrate. The veterans responsible for commanding the battle found that they could not effectively convey orders to the new recruits. The battle that was retreating and fighting inexplicably turned into a rout. The panicked recruits began to retreat in other directions indiscriminately, and some even turned back and ran into the muzzle of the Portuguese.
Fortunately, such a chaotic situation made the Portuguese army overjoyed. The garrison commander thought that this was the full strength of the guerrillas, and even sent his own men to pursue them. Although the first team collapsed inexplicably, it could be regarded as overfulfilling the task.
The second team that attacked the police station was a complete disaster. Within five minutes of the veteran in charge leading the team into the city, one-third of his men were separated. Several of them had relatives living in the city. The recruits even carried their weapons to visit relatives and friends.
Fortunately, there were still two-thirds of the people in the team. According to the tactics he had learned, the veteran first attacked with a rain of grenades, which blew up the colonial police. Then he took the lead and launched a charge with his men.
The unsuspecting colonial police were stunned by this round of attacks, and then the police began to drop their weapons and equipment and flee. According to the order, after breaking up the police station, the second team should stay here and wait for the order to retreat. , but when many guerrillas saw the police officers scattering, they spontaneously began to pursue them, so they rushed into the police chief's office. After the captain of the second team went out, he found that the remaining two-thirds of his people were gone. They dispersed. The police were all over the city, looking for them.
As for the three teams led by Zabi himself, it was okay at first. It took the guerrillas less than a few minutes to rush into the telegraph office house and occupy it, but then problems arose.
When the three teams were attacking, the guerrillas fired randomly and destroyed the only radio station of the telegraph office. In other words, Zabi's plan failed!
