"Captain Lee!"
"Commander, what's the matter?"
"I have a mission for you!"
Hannibal pulled the commander of the Apple unit and said.
"Go to the defender's weapons depot, take out all the explosives inside, and install them on both sides of all the main roads in the south and east of the city. Send someone to guard them. Once I give the order, they will explode immediately!"
"But if you do this, the road will be blocked, and our armored vehicles will not be able to mobilize!"
"Don't worry, they will be finished by then. This is a matter of brothers' lives, so I leave it to you!"
"I understand, I'll send my best team over!"
Captain Li knew from Hannibal's face that he was serious. He immediately put aside all his doubts and summoned his most elite men to carry out the mission.
Afterwards, Hannibal held a brief meeting with all the middle and low-level officers in Caddo Town.
When he learned that he was going to face an attack by an armored regiment and an independent artillery regiment, the American adviser of the ANLF force rolled his eyes and fainted. The ANFREX unit he was in was a reinforced infantry battalion, the only one. The heavy weapons are twelve millimeter mortars, and there are also some 42 general-purpose machine guns left over from the Portuguese army. These are even second-hand goods, which Portugal got from Germany in World War II.
In addition, this reinforced infantry battalion is still not full. After the continuous losses and air strikes, there are less than 400 people left. However, there is no shortage of rifles, but there are many types. The old Mauser 98k bolt-action rifles were borrowed from unknown places. There are everything from rifles to fal automatic rifles. Is this kind of equipment okay for fighting against the SPLM troops who are almost the same? How about fighting against the well-equipped Cuban armored forces?
But orders are orders, and orders that have been given must be implemented. Although everyone hates the random orders from above, what should be done must still be done. Hannibal also knows that his African allies are unreliable, so he On the one hand, he demanded that the opponent's troops be dispersed and handed over to his own people to lead. On the other hand, he also mobilized two combat teams to form field military police, which were used to use physical means to help friendly forces regain their confidence in fighting.
Of course, preparations for battle must be made, as well as preparations for escape. The trucks destroyed by the Cuban Air Force were only used to transport mortars. Those troop transport trucks were still intact and parked in the open space to the west of the town. Hannibal had these All the vehicles were moved to the side of the road. If the situation went wrong, he would blast the main road in the town to intercept the enemy, and then simply let his men run away in the car.
Although this kind of thing sounds despicable, Shadow Company is just a contractor after all. The CIA hires them to fight wars, not to die. The situation is urgent, and you just do what you have to do. This is what Shepard has emphasized long ago.
The soldiers of the Cuban army are like a huge boulder hanging above everyone's head. Everyone knows that if it falls, they will be shattered to pieces, but they still can't help but want to look up and see what the boulder looks like and when it will fall, as if that will make them feel more at ease.
"The range of the 6 cannon is about 27 kilometers. In other words, during the shelling, the enemy was at most 27 kilometers away from us. It has been two hours since the shelling ended. According to the speed of the mechanized troops, they should have arrived outside the town. Already!"
"But there is nothing outside the town. I asked the scouts to go scouting on motorcycles. Three kilometers south of the town, there is nothing!"
"That's why I feel more and more uneasy. With our defensive strength, the enemy can be defeated with a single charge, but now, if they don't show up, I don't know what they want to do!"
The atmosphere in the headquarters was extremely depressing at this moment. Hannibal even had the urge to rush to the Cuban commander, pull him by the collar and ask him what he wanted to do and why he didn't attack yet!
"Why haven't you attacked yet?"
Colonel Diaz smiled and touched his graying stubble, then looked at the many young armored officers surrounding him and said.
"Because I have no intention of letting them go. You saw the situation of the first company. The whole company came back with one vehicle. The enemy knows the importance of Caddo Town. Those defending there must be their elites. The shelling just now tells them
, we are already here, so now, the enemy has two choices! "
"Retreat, and then the whole situation collapses, or continue to invest in reinforcements to defend!"
"Although the Americans are not good at fighting, there is nothing wrong with their brains. The FRELIMO no longer has the ability to organize any large-scale combat troops. If Caddo is occupied by us, then all it takes is a beautiful left shot. Uppercut, all their troops on the eastern front will be surrounded by us, so there is no way they will give up their position!" Chinese website
"And to hold on to Cardo, ordinary ANFREX troops are definitely not qualified to come. The Americans will invest all the mercenaries they have summoned, such as the Shadow Shadow Company. Without these mercenaries, our Your opponent is a toothless tiger!"
"Then we just wait here?"
"No, it will be two o'clock in the afternoon. Our enemies must be busy decorating their burial place like hardworking bees at this moment. Give them an hour!"
Colonel Diaz patted the person next to him on the shoulder and said.
"It's just like a little bee who has worked so hard to collect honey and thought she could feast on it, but in the end, the hunter took away all the fruits of her labor!"
An hour later, while Caddo Town was still busy building fortifications, MiG-21 fighter jets once again visited the town. This time they dropped not bombs, but 500 kilograms of incendiary bombs. Cuba The people seemed determined to carve out an offensive field in the forest. The incendiary bombs directly burned the area hundreds of meters on both sides of the road until nothing was left. After the MiG fighter jets returned, they were deployed 20 kilometers away. The Cuban artillery outside once again began to greet the defenders with cannons.
This time the artillery did not attack the troubled forest again. Their attack target was very clear, which was the southeastern sides of Caddo Town. Hundreds of artillery shells fell one after another on the edge of the town. Hannibal had originally prepared Roadblocks and minefields were once again easily scrapped, and even the firepower points planned to be set up around those buildings were all blown into the sky. The worst thing was that three of the few recoilless rifles were blown up. This made their poor anti-tank firepower even more stretched.
After the bombardment ended, the scouts sent by Shadow Company also came running wildly on motorcycles.
"The enemy is coming!"
