For an extremely important task like demolishing a bridge, Savimbi would never trust it to mercenaries. Therefore, the people who performed the task were his cronies. A company of veterans was less than a hundred meters behind the front line. Watching the fighting on the front line from the bunker.
But this company has been standing still, because their mission is not to participate in the battle at all, they are specifically responsible for bridge blasting missions!
Therefore, while the comrades were risking their lives to fight, the company was silently waiting for orders from the headquarters in a safe underground bunker.
To ensure nothing goes wrong, even their bunkers were carefully camouflaged and covered with mud, and the detonation lines were carefully laid out to prevent them from being damaged by artillery shells.
The position of the Soviet special forces was not far away from them, almost a hundred meters away, but there was a small ups and downs in the middle. Therefore, the members of the special forces had no idea that the controller was near them.
They were on standby throughout the day, and in order not to arouse the suspicion of the surrounding friendly forces, they fought desperately on the defensive position. Automatic rifles and machine guns came into battle, and the clanking posture surprised the surrounding friendly forces.
"Are these guys' bullets free of charge?"
It can only be said that although the Soviets were extremely well prepared, they were still slightly deficient in small details. The mercenaries received salaries from their employers but would not receive free supplies. Good place, mercenaries have to bring bullets themselves. If they don’t have them, they have to spend money to buy them. Shepard just spent half a million rounds of 5.56 smuggled from Vietnam in the arms supermarket of *** mm bullets, the South Vietnamese government on the verge of collapse is now too busy to take care of itself, and the people below have no scruples in seeking benefits.
Therefore, Shepard's arms business can be said to be going extremely smoothly. He doesn't even need to spend a lot of money to buy personnel. He only needs a departure ticket to make large purchases in a heavily guarded arms warehouse.
The remaining thirty or so Vietnamese employees of Shadow Company were all sent to Saigon by Shepard in order to make a big profit at this last moment.
It's just that not all mercenaries can get a stable source of ammunition like Shepard. Most mercenaries have to find their own way to get regular military bullets. These things are not cheap in the market, and plus There is a problem of carrying and saving, so mercenaries will not carry too many bullets on the battlefield.
The old British gunmen in the Boer Defense Department just couldn't bear to shoot their 7.62mm bullets, so they used the cheaper and older 7.7mm Lee-Enfield rifles. The Enfield is also still very useful.
Therefore, although the shooting looks very intense, in fact, most mercenaries still control their consumption as much as possible and put an end to the idea of full-automatic fun. On the contrary, those soldiers of the Soviet special forces, they Focusing entirely on acting, playing in a fully automatic way consumed others for several days.
However, the mercenaries did not doubt it. They just ran to their positions in their free time and wanted to ask these guys if they had any cheap purchase channels, otherwise you would dare to be so wasteful!
Only then did the Soviet commander realize that he had made an own mistake. In order not to arouse suspicion, he could only make up a few random sentences, and then generously shared the non-existent contact with other mercenaries, who I was immediately grateful.
After relying on this tactic to build closer relationships, the commander took out the collection of rum and corned beef cans he carried to share with everyone, and the mercenaries on other positions also took out their own small collections to join the inter-war tea party. With fluent English and a few glasses of wine, everyone soon became good brothers who knew everything.
Seeing that the atmosphere was about the same, the Soviet commander immediately made indirect inquiries about the status of the defense lines and bridges.
The mercenaries who had been here for several days also knew everything. After all, they were all good brothers and they might even drink together after the war.
"I don't know if the defense line can be defended, but those niggas are quite clever. They have special people responsible for blowing up the bridge when the situation goes wrong. Those people are just behind us!"
"Really, those guys are pretty good at hiding!"
"That's for sure. I heard that UNITA spent a lot of money just on these lines of defense. Otherwise, why haven't those guys from the People's Liberation Army been able to attack after so many days? The hiding place of those guys who blew up the bridge is even more secret. Not to mention 130mm shells, even 203mm shells may not be able to penetrate them!"
"I don't believe it, Uncle Hei is so powerful?"
"If you don't believe it, come on, let me point it out to you. Just behind that slope, that place is the detonation point. Those niggas are squatting there. The cannons on the opposite side have been blasting for so long. Look at that place, there are signs of damage!"
"Really, blame me, blame me!"
The Soviet commander immediately apologized sincerely and asked his subordinates to bring out the fine wine in his collection. The subordinates immediately understood the hint and ran to the radio station in the rear to report the situation, and then took out the vodka collected by the commander. .
The drunkards were also rude. Although the Soviet Union did not deal with them, Soviet wine did not have this problem. Just drink it and that's it!
After drinking heavily, the mercenaries left one after another. After all, they still had to perform combat missions. When they left, everyone was still reluctant to leave, and agreed to get together again in their free time tomorrow.
After the mercenaries left, the Soviet commander finally couldn't help but laugh happily. He now felt that these mercenaries were so cute and were really unguarded against his own people.
However, even though we know the location of the detonator, it must be heavily defended, and a rash attack will definitely not work, so we must find another way to deal with it.
The commander made two plans, starting with detonators and lines. He planned to send people to search for lines along the bunker and nearby terrain late at night. If they found the line and destroyed it, then they would be considered successful. However, if they did not find the line, If so, then we have to find a way to cooperate with the friendly forces on the other side to get rid of the UNITA troops guarding the detonator.
The MPLA headquarters also simply handed over the decision-making power to the commander. No matter what he wanted to do, the headquarters would cooperate. If necessary, it would not be impossible to even dispatch fighter jets to forcefully break through the enemy's air defense network.
After all, everything is to win the final victory, so much sacrifice, now, it just depends on this step!
