In less than half a year, the vast countryside of Malanje Province turned into a paradise for guerrillas. The Portuguese army had not tried to fight back, but the dense water network and forests allowed the guerrillas to come and go freely, and their suppression was basically impossible. Can't catch the guerrillas by their tail.
The Portuguese army tried a combination of helicopter-transported paratrooper assault and armored troop outflank attack. This trick was very effective. The outflanked guerrillas were no match for the Portuguese army. However, after using this routine a few times, it stopped working. , due to the limited number of Portuguese Air Force helicopters, the consequence of investing a small number of helicopters in Malanje Province is that in the central and southern parts of the country, the guerrillas of the MPLA and UNITA have grown more and more. Even under the leadership of Cuban instructors, The MPLA arrived directly at the capital, Luanda, and fired a round of mortars at the air base.
Although the shells did not cause any actual damage, they also made the Portuguese army's top brass furious. After all, Luanda was a symbol of their occupation of Angola. When this place was beaten, it was not Uncle Black's butt but Portugal's face!
The paratroopers who performed anti-insurgency operations in Malanje were directly transferred back to the capital to guard, while the only ones left in Malanje were ordinary infantry.
These ordinary infantrymen equipped with light armored vehicles and trucks rely heavily on road mobility. Although the high-level Portuguese army has also formed dragoon troops using horses, the number of these elites is limited. Therefore, in the face of the harassment of highway lines by the guerrillas, the Portuguese army has no choice. It is difficult to parry. What the guerrillas like to do most is to use rocket launchers to fire at trucks on the road within a hundred meters. At this distance, it is almost difficult for the shooter to miss.
Moreover, the Lunda Norte guerrillas are not willing to fight at all. Their purpose is to harass the Portuguese army. Therefore, after firing a rocket, the guerrillas will immediately retreat without even confirming whether there is a victory. Although this approach seems It seems to be a waste of ammunition, but it can preserve combat effectiveness very well.
The Portuguese army was powerless to do anything about this. After all, they had no way of dealing with this kind of hit-and-run guy.
So soon, the Portuguese army, whose logistics lines were repeatedly attacked, began to falter like their colleagues in Lunda Norte. They clung to their strongholds and stopped carrying out large-scale raids. In response, the guerrillas stopped attacking Portugal. In the military logistics line, after all, rabbits can bite when they are anxious. The Portuguese army who had no food to eat went crazy and no one could handle it.
After the two sides entered a calm confrontation, Shepard could continue to send Sark's black mercenaries to further train Zabi's team. Shepard, who adheres to the policy of elite troops, has always opposed Zabi's mindless expansion of the army. Therefore, even if the guerrillas occupy two provinces, they will only have over a thousand combatants available, but this number is enough to maintain control of the entire ANLF!
And this is enough! Next, Shepard only needs to wait for an opportunity that will allow Zabi to directly intervene in the core affairs of the ANLF.
The CIA also provided timely assistance to Shepard. After calm was restored in Malanje Province, the CIA drove back the resistance forces that were originally active here. This guerrilla force, which numbered more than 3,000, had no control over the situation. In their eyes, the Lunda Norte guerrillas are just a group of thieves occupying a magpie's nest. As masters, they drive away thieves. What's wrong with them?
Zabi also obeyed Shepard's orders and did not conflict with the former. The guerrillas even took the initiative to give up the control area to avoid any friction between the two sides.
This disappointed Hudson, who had been waiting for a good show. He did not understand why Shepard was so weak even though he had the superiority in force. It was not until shortly after that a conflict broke out between the Malanje guerrillas and the local village that Hudson Understand what Shepard wants to do.
After taking control of the vast countryside, the Lunda Norte guerrillas carried out a series of actions to win over people's hearts, such as distributing food and evenly dividing the land. In addition, the guerrillas also exempted the villages from heavy tax burdens, and even Parker organized Doctors of the National Border make rounds in these villages, but the Malanje guerrillas are not as talkative as Zabi's team. .z.br>
After they took over the territory, they didn't even bother to act gentle and started to act recklessly in the controlled area. The officers snatched land and property, and captured villagers to serve as slaves. The ordinary soldiers were able to lead cows and catch chickens in a learned way. Molesting women is supposed to be a liberator
The guerrillas who entered Malanje Province became a thorn in the side of civilians.
Especially those villages that had become accustomed to the policies of the Lunda Norte guerrillas. Faced with such excessive rescuers, these villages spontaneously organized militias in an attempt to confront them.
But no matter what, the Malanje guerrillas received US aid. They couldn't defeat the Portuguese, so why couldn't they defeat ordinary villagers? Relying on a batch of weapons aided by the United States, the guerrillas directly launched a large-scale three-day carnival. Three unruly villages were directly slaughtered, even more cruelly than the Portuguese.
At this time, Zabi immediately made serious criticisms and accusations against the Malanje guerrillas in his capacity as Frelimo, and issued a stern warning. However, it was obvious that the latter did not take it seriously at all, and even intensified it.
For a time, everyone, whether they were the Portuguese or other FRELIMO members, were waiting and waiting to see how this conflict would end.
Then, with the joint pleas of many villages, the Lunda Norte guerrillas decisively attacked. With the support of the Shadow Company, the black uncles used helicopters and seaplanes to carry out rapid penetrations. The territory that Zabi had originally surrendered on his own initiative was It was recaptured in less than a week, and the Malanje guerrillas were divided and surrounded among dozens of villages and towns.
Then, a combat force composed of Shadow Company military contractors, led by a handful of Lunda Norte guerrilla guides, executed a beheading of the Malanje guerrilla leader.
Under P's deliberate release, the leader of the guerrillas in Malanje Province fled alone. He was so embarrassed that he fled into the forest without even putting on his clothes. Then, chased and intercepted by the guerrillas and P, the leader continued to move toward He fled further west to the province of Kwanza Norte, where he met with the guerrilla leaders of Kwanza Norte.
This was what Shepard wanted. After confirming that the two sides had joined together, the Lunda Norte guerrillas directly entered Kwanza Norte in the name of capturing traitors and established a stronghold here.
Such behavior caused an uproar within the ANLF. Everyone was waiting for the CIA action team to respond, but found that they seemed to have no response.
