"If you dare to attack a military base, you are no longer an ordinary guerrilla! You must hit hard!"
Generally speaking, the current resistance forces in Angola have no courage to launch an attack. Whether it is UNITA or the MPLA, the two largest resistance forces are currently active in villages and towns. After all, the government The military's aircraft and artillery can really speak.
Although in later generations, when people talk about the American Space Force, there will always be remarks like the other side launching incendiary bombs into Afghan villages, but in fact, the Portuguese also did this, or in other words, almost most white countries did this.
The Portuguese army and the Rhodesian army will use tactical bombers to conduct steady and intensive bombing of the areas where the guerrillas are active. In addition, they will have fighter jets to patrol and shoot suspicious vehicles with machine guns. Therefore, without effective restraint, resistance will All forces will try to avoid large-scale counterattacks.
Although Zabi's operation was not a successful counterattack, the garrison commander still held a grudge against the opponent.
After all, he was the one who caused the garrison to lose their comfortable barracks, leaving them to sleep in tents until the reconstruction was completed. Therefore, in order to retaliate, on the third day after Zabi fled back to the border forest, Portuguese fighter planes attacked several suspicious resistance forces. Support villages were bombed.
These G91 attack aircraft, which took off from the Luanda Air Force Airport, flew down from high altitudes like falcons carrying bombs and rockets, and then began to repeatedly destroy villages and farmland. After the bombs and rockets were exhausted, The pilots who enjoyed themselves even fired several rounds with the four machine guns on the plane until they ran out of ammunition before leaving with satisfaction.
Several of the villages that were attacked have now become miserable. The huts made of thatch and mud are already crude. Usually when it is windy or rainy, you have to worry about water leakage. Now bombs are falling from the sky, not to mention, the whole village is in a mess, almost There are no intact buildings.
Fortunately, the casualties were not large. The civilians living here have become accustomed to such days, and most importantly, after Shepard began to fund Zabi, he began air defense planning for these villages.
Without anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles, we can only rely on air raid shelters. Fortunately, the number of 227kg bombs dropped by the Portuguese was not many, and the local soil is not soft, so the air raid shelters dug several meters deep in these villages are particularly good. Villagers have even regarded these facilities as part of their daily lives. They will store cassava and drinking water, as well as dried salted fish and dried fruits in them to survive in emergencies.
Of course, being warehouses and shelters is definitely not the ultimate goal of these pits. What Shepard wants is a tunnel network, the kind of tunnel network that can be advanced, attacked, retreated, and defended.
Shepard did not expect these potholes to be able to connect villages within dozens of miles like the huge networks dug by the old predecessors. He was a person who could clearly understand the reality. The current manpower and material resources in the border control area simply could not reach the level of building such a network. The requirements of a huge tunnel system.
Therefore, what he envisioned was a network based on the village, which could enter and leave the village underground and be used to transfer targets!
Shepard's thoughts coincided with those of the veterans who had dealt with Charlie for a long time. They had seen the severity of these potholes, but Parker was the only one who still had the condescending disdain of the British Empire.
"Is this thing really useful?"
"Don't underestimate this. The Boers and the Continental Army also used this back then!"
"John! The Boers lost in the end, and the Americans became independent with the help of the French!"
How could Helen not know that Shepard was concentrating on herself? Her restraint and Shepard's strong body of 1.9 meters did not allow her to use big-eared melon seeds to fight back, so she could only say Shepard's full name to express her feelings. Her current attitude.
And Shepard, who was happy to see the opponent's anger, did not miss this opportunity to attack the opponent.
"How about making a bet?"
"What bet?"
"Let's bet on whether the tunnel will work!"
"Okay, what about the bet?"
"If I win, you kiss me! If I lose, I kiss you!"
"What difference does it make?"
"Why not? The nature is completely different, okay?"
"Okay, then I'll bet another five thousand dollars! But if I win, you have to run around the camp naked!"
"make a deal!"
Shepard was immediately delighted. It wasn't that he liked the five thousand dollars, but that he really wanted to try what it would be like to run around the camp naked. After all, he was determined to be a hardcore person who would go down in history in this life. If you are a ruthless person and don't even dare to run naked, how can you be remembered in history?
However, because the tunnel network was not yet complete, he could only let Zabi and his men stop for a few days to avoid stimulating the Portuguese to launch a ground offensive. Then Shepard simply spent a dozen boxes of cans and a dozen bags The price of flour hired a large number of fellow Congolese people to go to Angola. Under the hard work of hundreds of black uncles day and night, Zabi's hometown, a village called Zeyo, took the lead in completing the construction of a tunnel network. .
Afterwards, Zabi, who received orders from Shepard, led his men to attack again, digging roads everywhere, laying mines and blowing up telephone poles, and even fired cold shots at the Portuguese military camp at night.
Faced with such a death-seeking opponent, the Portuguese garrison decided not to focus on air strikes this time. They would combine air and ground to teach the death-seeking Zabi a thorough lesson.
For this reason, the garrison commander also asked his superiors to reinforce him with a paratrooper company, plus the two infantry companies he already had, four hundred people against a mere one hundred people. Needless to say who has the advantage!
The garrison commander, who thought he had a chance to win, did not even hide his intentions. He directly asked the local police and civilians to spread the news, trying to intimidate Zabi and at the same time disrupt the opponent's combat power, but the garrison commander did not What we know is that Zabi has withdrawn his new soldiers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At this moment, he is left with more than 20 veterans and a dozen black mercenaries under Sack.
Most of these people have been fighting for several years, so naturally they are not comparable to the new recruits. Many of them are even gearing up to kill a few desperate Portuguese.
The mercenaries under Sack were even more active, because Shepard even offered a bounty on their heads, and they could earn bounties by killing Portuguese soldiers.
The black uncles are not good at anything else, but their enthusiasm for making money is no worse than others. In order to make a few heads of money better, the mercenaries under Sack even used their old capital to open a business inside Shadow Company. There are a lot of good things in the armory store.
"Look, you have to be a pure mercenary!"
