After breaking through the outer wall, the morale of the MPLA soldiers who had failed to make any progress yesterday due to a hard day's battle was immediately boosted. Under the leadership of their commanders, they bravely crossed over by either climbing alone or using ladders. to the outer wall and then entered the airport.
After receiving the news, Malashenko immediately ordered each company to work together and follow the predetermined plan to break through the enemy's defense line and capture the airport.
At this time, the good luck that favored Captain Malashenko seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
After entering the airport, the MPLA soldiers were once again bombarded by grenades. The grenadiers, who had already calibrated the coordinates, directly used the 9-9 grenade launcher in their hands as a mortar, firing straight at nothing. The bombing began on the covered flat ground. Outside, the MPLA soldiers could still rely on the terrain and bunkers to protect themselves. However, after entering the airport, they had no cover at all on the side facing the hangar. Instead, they were ambushed on the slopes on both sides of the hangar. The machine gunners and snipers tilted their bullets downwards in a playful manner.
Especially the disgraced sniper team that had been bombarded by mortars had long been simmering with anger. They even lazily found sand and gravel to fill in sandbags as bunkers, and directly used ammunition boxes filled with magazines to block them in front of them. After finishing the bullets, they took new magazines directly from the ammunition box.
When the frontline commander called for artillery support, he discovered that because the hangar looked like a trapezoid from all four directions, the artillery shells could only hit the top and the ground of the hangar, and the inclined ramp of the hangar was damaged due to reflection. The inclined plane cannot be hit at all.
At this time, the Soviet and Cuban instructors distributed among the MPLA troops once again stood up. They shouted victory, raised their weapons and charged towards the hangar area a hundred meters away.
Although many people were hit by bullets and could no longer stand up, a considerable number of people still rushed to the hangar. Under the leadership of their instructors, the MPLA soldiers risked their lives and launched a charge. After a considerable number of people were killed, the three companies finally reached the hangar.
Then, for the MPLA soldiers, the extremely cruel and bloody close-range street fighting broke out again. The Shadow Company's P's deployed firepower points on the back slope of the hangar where mortars could not reach them, and set up machine guns and recoilless rifles, constantly firing Blocking the follow-up personnel of the MPLA, those soldiers who entered the hangar encountered repeated attacks from booby traps, rocket launchers, machine guns and even flamethrowers.
The internal structure of the hangar is not complicated, but it is extremely empty. However, due to the lighting problem, the interior is very dark. When the MPLA soldiers outside enter the hangar, they will immediately fall into a state of poor visibility, and the Shadow Company's P's They had been lurking in the corners and underground passages of the hangar for a long time. When they discovered that the target had entered, they had no scruples at all, throwing grenades and launching rifle grenades as they pleased.
The MPLA infantry also used their own machine guns and rocket launchers to fight back. The two sides began to see each other repeatedly in the nine hangars on Runway 1 and the surrounding buildings. Outside the hangars, the snipers of the Shadow Company also fought with Cuban snipers using SVD sniper rifles started a duel.
Although as a professional sniper rifle, SVD is superior, the snipers of Shadow Company have terrain and intelligence advantages. Each sniper team carries a walkie-talkie with a communication range of five kilometers for communication. Relying on team coordination, those The Cuban snipers who reinforced the SPLM troops were quickly beaten out of the airport area.
Although mortar shells were fired at these snipers later, they were hit too much by the shells. The snipers of Shadow Company also knew that they could not stay in one place for too long. Therefore, it was difficult for the MPLA's mortars to target them again. What threat do the guarded shadow snipers pose.
To be precise, when the two sides start fighting indoors again, it will be difficult for the mortars set up outside the airport to pose as much of a threat to Shadow Company's defense as before.
Because the hangar and surrounding buildings were designed and built with many issues in mind, especially since it was attacked by MPLA rockets later, the strength of the building was beyond Malashenko's imagination, and mortar shells fell on It is difficult to cause much damage on these sturdy buildings.
On the contrary, due to terrain restrictions, the flat-fire recoilless rifles set up by Shadow Company played an unimaginable role in the airport.
When the People's Liberation Army attacked, no one
The recoil gun can safely fire grenades close to the house without worrying about causing accidental damage to friendly forces in the house. When the hangar and building are lost, the artillery can fire shells directly into the house through the door openings and windows. In a small space, the damage caused by explosions to the human body is much more cruel than in the wild. After many MPLA soldiers conquered several buildings, their ears often started to bleed and they had difficulty breathing, and they had to withdraw from the battle to rest.
Even the agents of Shadow Company even took the initiative to start fishing. They would set traps in the hangar. When the SPLA soldiers attacked, they would hide in the underground passages, and then wait until the SPLA soldiers broke into the hangar. The recoilless weapons outside Cannons and grenades will fire inside. When the explosion is over, the P's hiding in the underground passage will come out again and take advantage of the chaos to launch a counterattack. Z.br>
After nearly half a company of soldiers were killed, the MPLA finally captured the three hangars on the southeast side of Runway 1. At this moment, the time had reached 6 p.m., and the fierce battle lasted for seven or eight hours. The two sides simply cannot afford to fight anymore. After all, there are not many of them, let alone rotation.
The P's of Shadow Company can also take advantage of the break between battles to eat two bites of chocolate and drink a sip of well water with saccharin added to replenish their energy. The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of China have nothing but combat equipment, because in order to prevent the soldiers from stealing field rations, Soviet instructors would never give out these precious materials.
Unlike the Ps in Shadow Company, even the lowest-paid Korean employees are disgusted with luncheon meat and biscuits. Normally, they would rather eat tapioca paste.
Then the gunfire suddenly stopped again, and both sides began to set up guard posts and then entered a state of rest. Many MPLA soldiers fell asleep without even waiting for the meals delivered by the cooking team.
As for Shadow Company, although the old agents headed by Hudson were very tired, Hudson had no intention of taking a rest. He and a group of field agents immediately left after eating and drinking. Take a nap in a corner of the headquarters.
"Hold your position and wake us up at twelve o'clock! Don't sleep too much tonight!"
Hudson was going to make good use of the sneaky skills he had learned elsewhere and take advantage of the darkness to take back the lost hangar.
