After receiving a detailed reply from Shepard, Hudson quickly responded. The armed forces within the ANLF were not very resistant to the joining of the Lunda Norte guerrillas, provided that Lunda Norte did not come to separate. Just moisten their aid supplies.
But Zabi really doesn't care about this. His team is really not short of a few guns. Over the past year, in addition to relying on Shepard's assistance, they have seized hundreds of weapons from the Portuguese army and servant troops. A rifle, not to mention things like bullet trucks. Anyway, for the guerrillas, if they lack anything, they can just go to the police station and checkpoint to get it. Anyway, these places usually only have servant troops.
Zabi now hopes to expand his territory. After all, with more territory, he can integrate more human resources and better strengthen his team.
After reaching a consensus with the ANLF, Shepard immediately chose the direction of expansion for Zabi, which was Malanje Province, southwest of Lunda Norte. A year ago, the ANLF guerrillas were still active here. However, recently, due to successive defeats in the central region, the Portuguese army, which has been unable to find a breakthrough in the direction of the MPLA, has stepped up its suppression of the north and south. The FRELIMO guerrillas in Malanje Province were not wiped out under multiple strangulations. He fled to the border province of Uige further north. It can be said that Malanje Province is like a nursery hotbed at the moment, with all the conditions except seeds.
Compared with the wilderness forests and many swamps of Lunda Norte, Malanje Province is covered with river networks and has fertile land. It is much better than Lunda Norte in terms of population and level of development. However, the burden on the civilians living here is also heavier, not only A large number of laborers were recruited, and even the crops they produced were ruthlessly taken away. The rations of civilians were sometimes not enough to eat, and even more people died of starvation in fertile agricultural provinces.
It can be said that although Malanje Province looks peaceful, it is like a silent volcano. All it lacks is an opportunity to erupt!
Zabi's guerrillas used Shadow Company's newly acquired seaplanes to quickly drop a large number of capable work teams into various areas of Malanje. Then, these armed teams were just like they were in Lunda Norte. Propaganda and lecture tours were carried out in the villages, while operations began to be replicated in Lunda Norte, with attacks on armed tax collectors, attacks on colonial administrative structures, and late-night attacks on Portuguese military camps with roadside bombs and rockets.
These dazzling actions put the Portuguese garrison in Malanje Province into the same pain as their colleagues in Lunda Norte. Due to the defeat of the ANLF, the Portuguese garrison in Malanje Province had an easy life. The soldiers could walk on foot. By patrolling villages and towns, lone soldiers will not encounter any danger.
But when the Lunda Norte guerrillas arrived, the Portuguese garrison in Malanje Province was horrified to find that the good old days were gone. They could not organize foot patrols because various bombs would pop up in the grass on the roadside. Quite a few of them are made by local craftsmen, which means that the quality of the bombs cannot be guaranteed. Sometimes, a homemade bomb filled with explosives can kill an entire class, but sometimes, the bomb that explodes is no more than a firecracker. There's a lot of movement.
Therefore, those unlucky infantry patrols every day are like gambling. Either everything is safe, or they are dead or injured. Sometimes you may be safe one second, but be sent to the sky by an inexplicable explosion the next second.
The entire Malanje even had an unprecedented record. In one day, the number of wounded wounded by inferior mines and bombs even exceeded the one hundred mark.
In addition, the armed guerrilla groups in Lunda Norte also like to kidnap lone Portuguese soldiers, and then use these prisoners to exchange supplies with the Portuguese army. At first, the Portuguese army thought of using this as a trap to kill those daring guerrillas, but in After several prisoners died and were photographed by the guerrillas, the garrison gave up this practice. After all, no one could guarantee whether it would be their turn next. .z.br>
In addition, not to mention those covert sniper and rocket attacks, the line of the South African National Cooperation Agency that Shepard boarded has even undergone industrial upgrades. Their military industry department has transformed old rockets and refueled them for launch. medicine to ensure that these rockets fly faster and farther.
In addition to using force to win the hearts and minds of the Portuguese army and colonial authorities, Zabi also relied on his management model in Lunda Norte to
The cooperating villages and towns made scientific calculations and collected materials reasonably to ensure the supply of the guerrillas.
Even when some villages fell into a survival crisis due to the loss of rations due to raids, seaplanes would deliver rations and seeds to the desperate villagers.
With this complete process, in less than three months, more than one-third of the territory in Malanje Province fell under Zabi's control, and these territories, like Lunda Norte Province, were controlled every day Several villages, the continuous expansion of several villages.
At this time, Hudson also understood why Shepard was not very willing to let the Lunda Norte guerrillas have any contact with FRELIMO at first, because the work done by the other party was simply too shocking and divided the colonial authorities' officials. Assets and hanging their bodies on trees were fine, but when it came to dividing the fields, Hudson pretended that he didn't see it.
After all, it is an unchanging fact that FRELIMO has actually restored its control over Malanje Province. As for who is the person who controls Malanje, it is no longer important. What is important is that he can give orders to the people above. Proving that the efforts of the CIA task force paid off.
And this is indeed the case. Relying on the accumulated reputation, Zabi's armed group successfully expelled a group of guerrillas sent by the MPLA to Malanje. Even later, when these guerrillas tried to gain a foothold in Malanje, They will also be driven away and reported by the public.
It can be said that although the foundation is still shallow and there is no overly powerful combat force, the efficiency and professionalism displayed by the Lunda Norte guerrillas still gave many forces a slight shock.
And Hudson also understood at this moment that Shepard had emphasized the difference between military contractors and mercenaries before.
"I must admit now that military contractors have done a much better job than us in completing their targets!"
When communicating with colleagues in private, Hudson could not hide his praise for the military contractor industry. However, what Hudson did not know was that this was only the beginning of Shadow Company's dazzling performance throughout the Angolan Civil War.
