This rocket attack did not receive any attention due to its sudden and accidental nature. The Portuguese army encountered countless attacks every day, ranging from throwing bricks and spitting to bullets hitting the face. It was just a rocket, so it was a little rare. It doesn't matter!
Therefore, after the attack, the Portuguese officer who was attacked did not even provide any detailed explanation in the report. In order to reduce his possible responsibility, he even concealed the soldiers' injuries and wrote that they were uninjured. For his superiors, the reports are even less worth mentioning, because there are so many such reports that the regiment-level headquarters even throws them into the wastebasket without having time to read them.
However, the Portuguese army's lack of response greatly encouraged the courage of the guerrillas. Seeing that the other party was so slow and numb, they no longer dug tunnels covertly. With the help of Germany, they quickly changed their tactics.
The target chosen by Zabi this time was a company-level station of the Portuguese army. It was a military camp located in a hilly ridge zone. It was an important stronghold used by the Portuguese army to control a radius of dozens of kilometers, and it was attacked last time. My hometown also has a share in this company.
The guerrillas disguised as herdsmen drove the sheep under the hills for three consecutive days for close reconnaissance. In the distance, the guerrillas were also using telescopes for long-distance observation. After several days of squatting, the guerrillas had a clear view of Portugal. The trajectory of the military's activities is already clear.
This company-level camp dispatches a platoon-level patrol team to conduct vehicle patrols every morning and noon, but the route is not fixed. They will conduct irregular surprise inspections in thirteen nearby villages and markets, and at 6 p.m. After that, all the patrol teams will return to the camp to rest. During this period, the company will have a meal at seven o'clock, and then there will be some other activities arranged. Until nine o'clock, the camp will enter a rest state.
Compared with other checkpoints, the security of this camp should not be underestimated. They not only arranged machine gunners and searchlights on the camp's sentry towers, but also had their observation posts in the extended areas on both sides of the hilly ridges, and these sentry towers It's open 24 hours a day, so it's not easy to get close.
However, Shepard was not one to give up easily. Since he couldn't get close, he would find a way to get close. So a few unlucky guerrillas put on sheepskin disguises, and then tied launch rails to the sheep, and continued herding the sheep every day. When the time comes, drop things little by little in the blind spot of the sentry tower under the hill.
Then, relying on this ant-moving method, the guerrillas forcibly stored more than a hundred rockets under the hills in three days.
Then, on another moonless night, the guerrillas got off the truck three kilometers outside the military camp. Then more than a dozen people ran all the way in the night. After arriving at the foot of the mountain, they immediately started assembly work.
The sentinels on the hills only focused on scanning the distance with their searchlights. They did not expect that less than 400 meters away under their noses, there were more than a dozen black uncles sweating profusely.
Then, when the sentry felt chilled by the lonely night and couldn't help but miss his sweetheart in his hometown who was married to someone else, dense rockets flew out right under his nose.
This time the guerrillas prepared a total of five launchers. The launch angles and directions were also different, but they could basically cover the Portuguese military camp. After completing the launch preparations, the black uncles turned on the power and started running back. To lighten the load, they didn't even carry anything, even the power source was left behind.
The activated rocket no longer does anything. After being activated, the engine will complete the next work.
More than a hundred rockets bombarded various locations in the military camp one after another. At first, the rockets only attacked the deserted playground. Later, the targets of the rockets falling randomly were no longer limited to the playground, but dormitories and ammunition depots. , and parking lot.
Although a rocket with a 60-pound charge is not as good as a howitzer, it is enough for a wooden house. A rocket accurately exploded on the roof of a class dormitory, and then wood chips and shrapnel fell from the sky. , directly turning the infantrymen in the room into hedgehogs. Although none of them were fatal, the serious injuries were enough to keep them in the hospital for a year and a half.
There was also a rocket that accurately exploded the camp kitchen, blowing up all the rice, flour, vegetables and fruits into the sky. The worst thing was the last round of rockets that fell. This row of rockets was randomly set by the guerrillas. From an angle, it was intended to cover the row of dormitories behind the camp. As a result, the rockets flew randomly in the air and landed in the parking lot of the camp. Two military trucks full of fuel were directly hit, and then a violent explosion occurred. The fragments shattered almost half of the vehicles in the parking lot and even shattered oil storage tanks in the camp.
The leaked fuel flowed out, and when it came into contact with the flames, it started a fire again, engulfing a large row of buildings near the parking lot, including a temporary ammunition depot where some bullets were stored.
And all this happened less than three minutes after the rockets fell. At this moment, half of the panicked Portuguese soldiers had not even left their dormitories.
Fortunately, the garrison company commander had also seen big scenes. He calmly calmed down the panicked soldiers and quickly divided the personnel into three groups. One group put out the fire, another group transferred ammunition, and the third group followed He pursued the enemy on foot.
"Those guys are attacking us at close range, they can't run far!"
The Portuguese officer was right. With their legs alone, the guerrillas could not run very far, but their trucks were only three kilometers away. Therefore, these guerrillas, who had already developed a pair of iron feet, were unable to run far when the Portuguese went out. , had already fled two kilometers away, and when the Portuguese army arrived at the launching position, the guerrillas had already fled to the side of the truck. The driver didn't wait for these guys to sit down, kicked the accelerator to the bottom, and then sped away under the night.
When the pursuing Portuguese army reacted and drove out the few remaining vehicles to try to pursue them, the driver was extremely unlucky and ran over a mine laid by the guerrillas.
Although the anti-infantry mines did limited damage to trucks, they still destroyed the chassis of the truck and threw several unlucky ones out of the truck.
The garrison company commander limped out of the car and angrily fired all the bullets in his gun in the direction of the escape of the guerrillas who couldn't see the exhaust at all.
Then, he received even worse news.
"Lieutenant, the regiment headquarters has also been attacked. The battalion commander asked you to be on alert immediately!"
