The emergence of Boer Defense actually didn't cause much trouble at all. After all, none of the mercenaries still in Angola have climbed through mountains of fire.
The great achievements Bob Denard has done in the past ten years are no longer so legendary to most mercenaries who have been honing their skills on cruel battlefields for many years. After all, there are more matches, and everyone knows this place. How weird it is, in other words, you can fuck me!
But Bob Denard, who had just arrived and didn’t know what the war situation was like in Angola, didn’t think so. He had never seen any kind of black uncle. Whether it was peasant thugs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, guerrillas in Mozambique, or regular troops in Benin, he fought them all. However, what difference can a mere black uncle from Angola make?
Then, he saw it!
After hundreds of Soviet instructors and more Cuban instructors went through a year of hard training, although Uncle Black of the People's Movement of the People's Liberation Army was not completely reborn, he was still in shape and had reached 30 bullets and 100 rounds. The target can hit the target five or six times.
Moreover, they are well fed and clothed, understand basic tactical doctrine, and have learned a lot of basic team tactics, which is rare in Africa!
Not to mention that the MPLA even promoted literacy courses in the army and selected more personnel to study in the Soviet Union. Over time, they could really train a qualified army.
But these were ignored by Bob Denard. To him, no matter how well Uncle Black trained, he was still Uncle Black and would not become anything else.
On the other hand, his men are truly elite troops. They include not only retired soldiers from the British Air Service, but also many old friends from the Foreign Legion who have been laid off and re-employed. From the perspective of personnel quality, Bob's mercenaries are not at all outstanding. No worse than Shepard's Shadow Company.
In terms of the number of professional soldiers, his men are even better. However, due to language issues, the priority of many British mercenaries has now become Shadow Company. This is also one of the reasons why Bob is dissatisfied with Shepard. Back then, the company relied on its many British men to conquer the world. As a result, many of the men it could recruit have been taken away, which will definitely have an impact on the company's strength.
However, Bob was determined to regain his glory on the stage of the Angola Civil War. To this end, in the first month of working for Savimbi, he obtained several important attack missions behind enemy lines from the other party.
Then, the 47-year-old Bob Denard personally led his mercenaries on the mission. They successfully destroyed an artillery position and an oil warehouse of the MPLA within a week, and blew up a total of thirty trucks. Several grain depots were burned down, disturbing the rear of the southwestern front of the People's Liberation Army. ap.
There were hundreds of MPLA soldiers killed by them. Bob had many British sharpshooters. They could even use Lee-Enfield rifles to accurately blast a watermelon from 400 meters away. Many MPLA soldiers This is how soldiers are caught unawares from a long distance.
Such large-scale harassment behind enemy lines made the Cuban special forces, which had suffered heavy losses due to the gold mine problem, quite annoyed. They had not been active on the front line for more than a month, so why were the enemies so rampant?
So the rested Cuban special forces and a group of Soviet special forces who secretly arrived in Angola joined forces to attack. They first secretly searched for each other's whereabouts, and then quietly followed the mercenaries. When Bob was about to sneak attack a Cuban air defense position , launched a surprise attack from the rear.
This assault caught Bob Denard by surprise. His men even set up their mortars and were ready to start bombing the Shilka self-propelled anti-aircraft gun on the position. Then the Soviet Union fell on top of them. Cannonballs.
Before the mercenaries who were stunned by the bombing could figure out where the shells flew from, the enemy had already killed them in the face.
The Soviet special forces that launched the raid were even equipped with PBS silencers and special subsonic ammunition, which caught Bob off guard.
Fortunately, Bob's men had extremely rich combat experience. When these veterans saw that something was wrong, they immediately retreated while fighting. They carried a lot of grenade launchers and smoke grenades. These gadgets successfully hindered the pursuit of the soldiers. Allowing Bob and his men to escape successfully.
But the enemy behind him was not a vegetarian. The special forces pursued Bob for a whole day and night, forcing the latter to give up all missions and flee to the UNITA-controlled area.
And Bob was not unscathed. He lost more than twenty of his men, many of whom were old men who had followed him for more than ten years. This was a more serious loss than any other. On the way back, they were also attacked. Although the long-range shelling by the MPLA troops did not cause any damage, it still scared everyone.
And when they withdrew to the UNITA-controlled area before taking a good rest, they found that their excellent results were already widely spread among the mercenaries.
"Bob Denard's people are so powerful. If everyone in UNITA were as powerful as them, we would definitely win this battle!"
There are countless such rumors, and the source cannot be traced, because the drunken mercenaries will never remember what they said. If they have this time, they might as well drink two more drinks!
It would be fine if such rumors spread among the mercenaries, but the problem is that the rumors spread more and more widely, and even Savimbi knew that Bob's mercenaries were doing great things behind enemy lines. For this reason, he also deliberately Had dinner with Bob Denard at his headquarters.
During dinner, Savimbi also told the other party directly that your performance can be regarded as a model for the entire army. He wants his army to learn from it, and if there are still urgent tasks in the future, You must ask the other party!
And Bob Denard was too embarrassed to tell the other party that the rumors were all made up, so he could only bite the bullet and agreed. Then, Bob's men were dispatched by Savimbi to the headquarters of UNITA, Xinribo. This city is an important target of the current offensive by the MPLA troops because it is the core of the UNITA army.
The MPLA troops of almost 6,000 people are working hard to push the front line towards Xinlizhibo. The front line is not even 70 kilometers away from here, and it is still getting shorter.
Savimbi, who is well aware of how important this place is, is also actively mobilizing personnel and equipment to prepare for his own battle to defend Madrid. And Boer Defense, who stole the show, was the first priority defender he selected!
