"Flare!"
After several unlucky guys were accurately shot to death in the dark, no matter how stupid they were, they knew that Uncle Hei must have a way to observe their movements. The Portuguese army did not even think that the other party had night vision goggles. They guessed that the other party might use night vision goggles. In the moonlight, in order to find out the opponent's position, a soldier immediately fired a flare into the sky.
Immediately, the entire grassland was shrouded in bright light. A Portuguese non-commissioned officer raised his head, trying to find the target. In the end, he only saw a flash of fire on the mound a hundred meters away from him, and then he fell to the ground with his head tilted.
Fortunately, the Portuguese soldiers had found the target. Machine guns and rifles immediately began to greet each other. Dozens of people fired thousands of rounds of ammunition into the mound before the officers who arrived called to stop.
Immediately, the Portuguese began to fire flares into the sky non-stop, and when the flares rose, they would advance a certain distance. When they reached the mound, they only saw a discarded optical sight on the ground. Fal automatic rifle in the mirror, but the gunman was nowhere to be seen, not even a trace of blood on the ground.
The furious Portuguese soldiers immediately began to chase into the distance, but they ran for several kilometers without seeing anyone, and in the end they could only return with resentment.
This wave of raids by the guerrillas not only wiped out four of their mortars, but also added seven more killed and 21 wounded on the casualty list. Among them, six unlucky artillerymen were even seriously injured by grenades. It must be sent to the hospital for rescue immediately.
After being attacked by the guerrillas, the paratrooper company commander also guessed that there should be guerrilla tunnels in the wild. However, he could not conduct a search in such a large area. His men were already stretched thin just to control the current area of the village.
The infantry also lacked manpower. They had to defend the interception in three directions, guard the artillery, and support the paratroopers. They had more tasks. As a last resort, the infantry battalion commander and the paratrooper company commander decided to abandon the underground area they controlled after discussion. Evacuate all the people.
Before the evacuation, the paratroopers did not forget to destroy the tunnel to prevent it from being reused by the guerrillas.
Then, everyone suffered in the darkness until the next morning.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, a newly reinforced infantry company and a howitzer company arrived. With the addition of new troops, the Portuguese army immediately regrouped and began to clean up the remaining CD areas.
Compared with the two areas that were cleared before, the situation in the remaining CD area is even worse. Because it has been separated from the forest, the houses here are closer together. The yards are next to the yards, the houses are squeezed into the houses, the passages are even more crowded, and some paths are even Only one person can pass.
The guerrillas also defended this densely populated housing area more closely. In addition to various booby traps, the guerrillas even set up some traps.
After a newly reinforced infantry squad used blasting to destroy the door of a two-story building, they thought they were safe. But when a soldier opened the fellow's wooden cabinet, there was actually a loud noise coming from the cabinet. With the sound of gunfire, the soldier was shot in the chest by a submachine gun at close range. The comrades who heard the sound only saw a thin wire on the cabinet door hanging on the trigger of the submachine gun in his butt.
In addition to the cabinets, the guerrillas even pulled trip ropes on the earthen stairs. A soldier touched the rope when he went upstairs. Then a bomb placed in the wall even directly blew down a wall, and then crushed the soldiers in the house. Below.
In addition to these mechanisms, the guerrillas also took advantage of the height difference to repeatedly attack the Portuguese army. Despite the reinforcements, the Portuguese attack was not much faster than on the first day, but the guerrillas who attacked the enemy faced greater dangers. , after the Portuguese army encountered cold guns, they directly began to call in howitzers to attack the village. The 105mm howitzer was naturally not comparable to mortars. The earthen houses would be blown to pieces with only one round of ammunition.
In less than three hours of fierce fighting, half of the remaining houses in the village collapsed, and Zabi also lost four of his men. At this moment, there were less than twenty veterans around him.
But even so, Zabi still led his men to move through the tunnels, constantly shifting their attention, jumping out of the Portuguese army's siege, and appearing behind them to launch attacks.
A Portuguese infantry platoon that entered the battlefield had 13 more wounded soldiers in the morning. Although the injuries on their bodies were not life-threatening, they had to withdraw from the battlefield. The platoon even had to merge the two squads with greater losses. Let’s keep fighting together.
Although the battle was difficult, the Portuguese army still gritted its teeth and persisted, because they had seen the dawn of victory. The intact area of the entire village was only the last one-fifth, and the guerrillas were also reduced to this last fifth. In the area, they even discovered more than fifty tunnel openings on the new day, and this time they had enough explosives to blow these tunnel openings down.
Therefore, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Portuguese commander ordered a ceasefire, and then let the soldiers rest for half an hour. He wanted to clear the last area before six o'clock in the evening. To this end, he gathered most of the people in the village. When they arrived at the offensive line, what the commander didn't know was that when he ordered the rest, Shepard also gave the order to retreat.
Although a considerable part of the tunnels in the village were destroyed, those outside the village were not. Therefore, the remaining guerrillas and mercenaries took advantage of the Portuguese's half-hour break to withdraw to the tunnels outside the village, and there Turning around, we ended up in the forest where the paratroopers were attacking.
The Portuguese army did not place guard posts in the forest at all. The only few sentries in this direction were in the village, so no one knew that the black uncles had arrived here.
Then, Zabi and his men discarded almost all their equipment, retaining only radios, night vision devices and other equipment. They went straight into the forest and rushed towards the river four kilometers away, where they had stored their equipment early. A canoe for running.
But the Portuguese army had no idea. The artillery even bombarded for half an hour before the attack. Plus the search persisted. Therefore, when the Portuguese commander walked into Zabi's underground headquarters, Zabi and him His men were already in canoes and were heading down the river to retreat to the border.
The Portuguese army was still on the spot, searching the tunnels in the village as if they were facing a powerful enemy. Until nightfall, they searched almost every corner of the village, and then they discovered that the guerrillas who fought with them during the day had escaped through the tunnels!
Unable to accept this fact, the infantry battalion commander punched the wall angrily, while the paratrooper company commander who entered the room with him returned to the surface with a sarcastic face.
"Won?"
