"here you go!"
In fact, the paratrooper company commander never imagined that the place where Zabi was staying was actually only 200 meters away from him, just under an inconspicuous cowshed. The guerrillas dug out a space of several square meters underneath. Then use it as a command post.
There are dozens of such rooms in the entire village. They are usually used as warehouses for the villagers, but now, these rooms have been turned into garrison rooms, weapons depots, medical stations, headquarters and canteens. There are passages connecting them. In order to prevent the Portuguese army from entering, these passages not only have carefully concealed the exits, but also have many details inside, such as traps and observation holes. Such passages connect not only villages, but also several passages. It winds nearly a kilometer and extends directly into the wild fields outside the village, just behind the garrison commander's encirclement line.
Of course, although the tunnel is very convenient, Zabi's men cannot use it very skillfully, but fortunately there are a dozen mercenaries. These mercenaries were killed by Shepard after they changed their doors and joined the Shadow Company. To streamline the process, those who were most technically and tactically skilled were retained and followed Sark to do the wet work for Shepard.
Most of the people who caused damage to the paratroopers were these guys. They abandoned all the cumbersome things on their bodies and even moved shirtless in the tunnel. Each of them carried at least two submachine guns, and they were very decisive in launching attacks. After firing the bullets, they turned around and ran away, giving the paratroopers no chance to fight back.
Although nearly one-third of the buildings in the village have been blown up by Portuguese paratroopers, this does not affect their maneuverability in the tunnels, because these exits are not only in rooms, but also in livestock sheds, wells, and even inconspicuous buildings. Under the dirt table.
When the entire paratrooper company penetrated deep into the village and progress was slow due to lack of ammunition, Zabi knew that his opportunity had come.
"Wait, wait for time!"
He looked at his watch. At this moment, the Portuguese paratroopers had been fighting continuously for nearly three hours. Most of them just ate some biscuits in the morning. They were already exhausted. In addition, the sun was shining fiercely at noon, so the paratrooper company commander could only Ordered his men to hold off.
Zabi was waiting for this time, and then the attack team led by the mercenaries began to arrive at the exit along various passages. After confirming that it was safe near the exit, the guerrillas and mercenaries crept out of it, and then, it started Backstabbing of paratroopers.
A Portuguese noncommissioned officer was leaning against the wall, filling his mouth with water. After taking a satisfied sip, he just put down the kettle when he saw the round head of a black uncle popping up in the corner opposite him.
"enemy!"
While yelling a warning, the sergeant immediately dropped the kettle and tried to grab the gun, but Uncle Hei moved faster. Several rifles poked out from behind the wall and fired a round of fire. The number of paratroopers resting in the yard was reduced by three again. People, the paratroopers hurriedly started to fight back. As a result, several more grenades flew out from behind the wall. All the people could only run away and hide in all directions.
For a moment, the whole village seemed to be plagued by the plague. Unknown how many black uncles emerged from it, and then relied on their familiarity with the terrain to attack the paratroopers who were resting. The latter hurriedly responded to the battle in panic, although they were beaten by the black uncles at one time. They were in great embarrassment, but after regaining consciousness, the Portuguese soldiers immediately showed their fighting qualities and fiercely fought back the sneak attack by Uncle Hei, killing and wounding many people immediately.
The black uncles were not willing to fight, and seeing no benefit, these guys immediately began to throw grenades randomly, then quickly retreated and returned along the way they came.
The Portuguese paratroopers followed closely behind. Although they failed to catch the opponent's escaping tail, they still caught a few wounded people who failed to escape.
And these wounded guerrillas were extremely tenacious. Even when they were besieged, they still used up their last bullets. Some of them left a grenade to detonate when the Portuguese soldiers came close to arrest them. Some of them ran out of ammunition and food. He was captured alive, but no matter how much the Portuguese soldiers tortured him, he still didn't say a word. Instead, he looked at the assailant with a mocking expression. The Portuguese were so angry that they could only pull him out and shoot him in anger.
This sudden attack caused another double-digit attrition of the paratroopers. Although most of the black uncles were not good at shooting, they at least knew how to make up for it with automatic shooting, coupled with equally deadly grenades. Therefore, the training of both sides The gap was evened out at this moment.
The paratrooper company commander already wanted to retreat. He preferred to use artillery to raze the place to the ground instead of using his elite men to trade with the guerrillas. However, the garrison commander did not think so.
"Those guys are just running around in tunnels. If we find the entrance to the cave, there will be nothing they can do!"
To this end, he also transferred some infantry to help, so the paratroopers had no choice but to abandon their current starting point, retreat to the morning place and start repeated platooning of the AB area.
During this period, there were snipers from the CD area firing at them from the roof. Most of these snipers were equipped with optical sights, which posed a great threat to the Portuguese soldiers, and even shot them like a blind cat trying to kill a mouse. A paratrooper platoon leader who was directing operations was hit.
Fortunately, the infantry were very capable. Faced with the harassment from the snipers, they directly used mortars to fight back.
As a result, these harassments quickly disappeared without a trace, but there was still little improvement in the work of locating tunnels. In addition to a large number of cover-ups at the entrances of the caves, the guerrillas also built many fake tunnel entrances, and these tunnels The tunnels are also very secretive, so after the Portuguese army discovered the tunnels, they even had to screen them to avoid wasting ammunition on fakes.
Although they found several tunnel entrances, when the paratroopers entered them and tried to clear them, they were ambushed by the guerrillas. Some people were even detonated by the guerrillas and buried inside. As a result, the Portuguese army was in great pain. We are faced with a dilemma: should we continue to clear the tunnels, or should we not continue?
"continue!"
The commander of the paratrooper company felt as if he had eaten shit at the moment. He never expected that his troops would be in trouble in such an unknown place. Although the number of casualties in his company was only in single digits, it didn't seem to be anything big. losses, but this bad combat environment was the most serious blow to the morale of the troops, not to mention the field rescue centers that were already getting nervous at this moment.
"We must keep fighting, otherwise they will cause even greater trouble later!"
