"Look, this is called Africa's Dunkirk!"
After hearing the sound of the transport plane landing and the cheers like howling wolves and howling ghosts, Shepard, who is always good at explaining himself, immediately started his favorite international joke. Although this was true, the problem was that he was next to him. Sleeping with an Englishman, Parker can be regarded as the old London Union Jack. He has always had double standards. It is okay to criticize his own country, but it is definitely not okay to criticize others!
Although they lost all their weapons and equipment, as well as hundreds of eager friendly troops, these were no longer important to the Shadow Company P's who safely withdrew. After all, friendly troops were for sale.
Hannibal even stated categorically that it was for their own good that they left friendly troops at the airport. After all, the MPLA is the Angolan people’s own team. It has strict military discipline and is united. It is better than a comprador army like the FRELIMO. How many times, these guys might rebel in the future anyway, it's better to just go along with the flow and do a favor now.
Then, Hudson kicked him.
"An infantry battalion, you just open your mouth and send it away, right?"
"I didn't give you more! What do you think those are?"
"What do I have? I have more than you!"
Hannibal was not polite and kicked him back, and then the two of them began to report their losses.
"Hey, hey, this is not a glorious thing, why are you still arguing?"
Plomri, who was on the same plane as them, wanted to sew their mouths shut at this moment. They all said that family scandals should not be exposed publicly, but the two of them wanted to clean up the scandal.
The airport defenders sent away almost 600 guns one after another, and the supporting firepower was at least 30, including mortars, recoilless rifles and the like, in addition to a larger number of rocket launchers and rifle grenades, so to speak. , everyone brought back their underpants, but everything else was left there!
But now, the whole Shadow Company has to rely on the more than 20 rifles in the hands of the base guards!
In addition to all the weapons being thrown away, the three combat units organized by Shepard were all disabled. Half of them were injured, and the remaining half went to heaven. Although there were replacements, the replacements were also lost. A lot, but fortunately, these losses were paid for by someone. Although the CIA was not a good person, it was still diligent in paying out the money. There was no shortage of pensions and supplements. Even the airport's money was settled extra. Z.br>
"So, what's next?"
"Next? Wait!"
Anyway, whether it was Shadow Company, mercenaries, or CIA field agents, everyone had thrown away all their equipment, and no one could do anything they wanted to do.
"At this time, we don't need to be anxious, because someone will be anxious! So everyone should come to my base to play chess first! I don't have much else here, but it's a lot of fun!"
Perhaps it was because the troops really needed a rest, so after thinking for a few seconds, Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Matt immediately agreed to Shepard's invitation. Of course, many years later, Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Matt swore that this was probably the first time he had ever done this in his life. The thing he regrets the most is because that damn American bastard (Lieutenant Colonel’s term) poached nearly two-thirds of his subordinates!
So time seemed to stand still again. When tens of thousands of black uncles were fighting each other for their future in Angola, in the base camp of Katanga, the contractors seemed to have returned to their junior high school summer camp. The wounded recuperated on time every day and had fresh cream ice cream to eat, while others played cards, chess, fishing, camping, and barbecued meat.
Shepard especially likes to take dozens of people fishing, so that he is not the only one in the Air Force, and then he can openly tell Emil, the chef, to go to the market to buy fish if he can't catch them.
However, such good days do not include those air force pilots who saved everyone from fire and water. Although they no longer have to travel thousands of kilometers to transport ammunition and pick up the wounded, they only need to provide support to the ANLF troops fighting on the front line. Drop some supplies.
However, there is not much of this kind of busy life, because the troops of the ANLF are very considerate. After they know the difficulties of supply, they work hard to shorten the supply line every day.
Yes, that’s right, shorten the supply lines! High emotional intelligence: shorten supply lines! Low EQ: Being beaten by the enemy and retreating steadily!
So Shepard had another daily pleasure, which was to read the day's battle report to Parker after playing poker with him in the evening.
After all, fun must be shared with everyone!
The People's Movement of Anjia has gradually mobilized almost 15,000 pure combat troops. These troops are now pushing towards the entire north in a full-scale offensive posture, and the Anjie Liberation Front fighting them has 10,000 people. There are about two thousand people. Logically speaking, the gap of three thousand people is not huge, and it is just that when spread out on a front line of hundreds of kilometers. However, the Anjie Formation still successfully refreshed Shepard's view of Uncle Black's combat power. The lower limit of cognition.
For example, if an infantry regiment with a strength of 4,000 defends a valley front that is almost 12 kilometers wide, the average commander will definitely know to allocate firepower according to the terrain, but this commander with an underdeveloped brain and completely underdeveloped cerebellum simply puts himself The troops lined up on the defense line, and the MPLA troops attacking them also lined up in a very cooperative manner. After a day of fierce fighting between the two sides, the Cuban tank troops who came for reinforcements used two T3485 tanks to achieve several goals. What Thousands of People failed to do, they even broke through the ANLF defense line in just fourteen minutes, and then two tanks chased Thousands of Black Uncles for a full twenty kilometers before giving up.
Shepard and the others defended the airport for a full eleven days, during which time they did not lose an inch of the target to be defended. However, in less than four days, they lost more than 5,000 people, including the number of casualties. There were only over a hundred, and the rest were all taken prisoner.
Such performance shocked the top brass of the CIA and the Pentagon. I spent millions of dollars on this kind of thing?
Seeing that FRELIMO was about to send all of its men away, the CIA's top brass, who could no longer sit still, immediately began full-scale mobilization. In order to stabilize the front, they used 54 transport planes to directly send three infantry battalions from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the front line. Then, CIA Director William Colby even visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo in person to prepare for coordinating joint operations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa.
The Shadow Company, which performed exceptionally well in airport defense, also received a new contract. Colby knew that the only people he could rely on at this moment were these mercenaries. He immediately took out the ownership of the two oil fields in northern Angola and handed them over to Shepard.
"I hope you can contain the enemy's attack as quickly as possible. If you need anything, tell Hudson directly, and I will make it up to you in the shortest time! I only ask for one thing, Mr. John Shepard, I want to listen Good news!"
