Chapter 713: Target Presidential Palace!

Cape Verde is said to be an island country in the North Atlantic, but it is basically the southernmost part of the North Atlantic, close to the equator. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although the temperature rarely has extreme temperatures, it is relatively high all year round, and the evaporation is very large, with an average evaporation of more than 1,800 mm on each island, which will exceed 1,900 mm on San Diego Island, where Zhang Nan is located!

As a result, the entire archipelago has a dry climate, and the whole country has neither rivers nor lakes!

How did you live?

Reservoir?

Desalination?

Zhang Nan couldn't figure it out, this is a tropical area not far from the equator, not the Sahara of the African continent!

Dakar at about the same latitude is a savannah, while in the Pacific Ocean, the islands near this latitude can get maddening amounts of rain!

In response to Zhang Nan's question, Jenny smiled and said: "This is the Atlantic Ocean, don't talk about the Pacific Ocean, and besides, Dakar is 200 kilometers north to the Sahara!"

This is the territory of the subtropical high and the trade wind belt, and the west side is next to the Canary cold current and the temperature and humidity are reduced every day, and the extreme heat is gone, but it is no wonder that it is not a tropical desert climate!"

After settling down, Zhang Nan had to accept this contrary to the Chinese people's traditional perception of the climate of a tropical island, which is surrounded by water but is arid and rainless, with an average annual rainfall of just over 200 millimeters.

And according to the United Nations survey of 180 countries in terms of annual per capita water volume, Cape Verde ranks outside the top 150 in the world, with less than 800 cubic meters of water per capita per year.

The bigger problem is that just over 40 per cent of Cape Verde's urban population drinks water and only 30 per cent in rural areas.

What is the per capita water resources of China?

It should be more than 2,000 cubic meters, ranking eighty or ninety in the world.

Zhang Nan still remembers that the water resources of his hometown are about 1,600 cubic meters per person, which is lower than the national average water resources in China, but he has not felt that his hometown has been short of water in recent years: the water town in the south of the Yangtze River is short of water?

As long as it is not polluted and the water is lacking, then you are teasing me!

Cape Verde has half of the per capita water resources of its hometown, and even if you can't go boating in the river, it won't look like Shangganling, and even the swimming pool is filled with seawater, right?

Well, as soon as the question came out, I was looked at twice by my brother-in-law like a fool.

"The annual rainfall in Yan County is 1,400 mm, do you think it can be compared?"

Forget about this stubble.

When I asked the service staff who stayed behind, they said that the rainfall from July to October in Cape Verde accounts for 90% of the year, although the rainfall is not large, most of the precipitation is concentrated in a few days!

Nima, even more can't hold water.

The official language of Cape Verde is Portuguese, and most of the people speak a hodgepodge of Creole with Portuguese elements - both of which Zhang Nan does not understand.

There are people from the United States who can speak Portuguese, and Lin Man next to Zhang Nan can also communicate in simple Portuguese, but many of the waiters here can speak English, which makes Zhang Nan not have to rely on someone to translate to communicate.

At this time, Zhang Nan said to the local waiter in front of him: "You should build the reservoir!"

I don't know how to say that the people here are good, since the Portuguese arrived here in 1456, it has been inhabited for more than 500 years, and in this place where there are no lakes and no rivers, there is not a reservoir or a dam!

Even if it's the colonial period, it's been 14 years since it was independent, and I really don't know what the locals are thinking about!

We don't understand the thinking of African buddies, and the minds of the people of African island countries can't understand it -- you know, relying on tourism, Cape Verde really can't be regarded as poor, and it still has a little foundation.

There are signs such as "water conservation" in the hotel, and the daily water consumption of each room has a standard.

Saving water is very important, but the waiter has not yet expressed his opinion on the guest's words, and Xiang Weirong on the side said: "Do you think agriculture is a big village." ”

Counting on African buddies to build reservoirs, then hehe......

Zhang Nan thought that 20 years later, the people in the urban area of Yanxian County would be drinking the water from decades ago: directly from a large reservoir built in the sixties and seventies, the water quality was much better than that of the river.

Well, the first reservoir in Cape Verde was built more than a decade later with the help of the Chinese government.

I sent the waiter away and took a shower, but I always felt that the tap water had a hint of saltiness, and I don't know if it was desalination or psychological reasons.

Seeing that the time was more than three o'clock in the afternoon, it was still early before dinner, and I was going to have a meeting, but the scene outside the window made Zhang Nan feel a little inexplicable: the wind was blowing, and the sky was getting dark quickly!

Instantly understood that it was going to rain heavily, and it was definitely not small - the sky was turning yellow and dark.

Half an hour later, Zhang Nan stood at the door of the hotel lobby, watching the lightning and thunder, and the day was pouring water down like a break. There are a few hotel service staff by the pool who are actually dancing in the rain, and they are not afraid of catching a cold, and they are not worried about the possibility of being struck!

He said to Jenny beside him, "Well, there is a lack of water." In this weather, don't wash Lao Tzu's plane away.

Cape Verde, African!"

After nightfall, Zhang Nan completely understood why Cape Verde was so short of water: it was a pitiful more than 200 millimeters a year, and as a result, most of the year's amount was lost in a few hours.

This is an island, you can't hold water, you will run out at once, and it's strange if you don't go to Ganling!

The dinner in the island country is basically seafood, basically grilled, and the staple food is rice, which tastes okay. At the meeting after the meal, the Dakar side had already had the men in place, and the commander of the main attack was Dwight Breed.

There will be 180 people in this part, and with the exception of Bled and Jiang Hongrong, who is the deputy team leader, the rest will be basically black contractors, and this group will land on the beach 250 meters outside the presidential palace.

One of the commandos will be very special, because it will be a seven-member assault team led by Boss Guan.

This is what he specially requested, in order to catch that Yahya Jammeh as soon as possible, Guan Xingquan didn't want to fake the hands of others, so he was relieved to go into battle himself.

Originally, he couldn't leave Zhang Nan's side, but when the squad leader came, Guan Xingquan, who was restless, planned to go into battle by himself.

Depart tomorrow morning, plus Li Panfeng, Shamili, Karimi, Qiu Bo, Randy and Lin Man, take a seaplane to Dakar for a direct flight.

Once the raid starts, 130 of the 180 commandos will be divided into several teams to go straight to the presidential palace, and the other 50 will be divided into a second team to capture the Gambian national radio station, which is only more than 100 meters away from the presidential palace.

At the same time, the second group also carried three Type 87 82-mm mortars and set up artillery positions directly on a large grassy field next to the national radio station, and the fire was able to cover the entire city of Banjul, even the easternmost port area of the island was within its range.

Mortars made in the Gambia with Chinese, this will not be troublesome?

Export needs, even the shells are marked in all-Russian, "it has nothing to do with China", specially made, even if there are unexploded bombs, it will be a confused account.

Assault on the offensive carried a large number of M72 rockets and Soviet-style 82mm mortars - because the Gambian army did not have tanks at all, not even armoured vehicles, and the rockets were sufficient.

At the same time as launching an offensive in the direction of the main attack, Zhang Zhenjin, a veteran acting platoon commander from the Northwest Military Region, will lead a platoon of men to the road bridge connecting Banjul to the mainland and set up a bridgehead, and they also have two mortars.

The team, which also carried hundreds of kilograms of black sorkin explosives, blew up a row of piers on the side of St. Mary's Island at the same time as the battle for the Presidential Palace began.

Several of the sleeper agents who have already entered Banjul will join the two groups at the beachhead: in the name of tourism these days, the important targets of the entire Banjul have long been clearly known by the "joint forces".

At the same time, at the mouth of the Gambia River, six 11-meter rigid inflatable high-speed assault boats equipped with GECAL50 12.7mm three-barreled Gatling, M134 rapid-fire machine guns and automatic grenade launchers will patrol, temporarily isolating the tiny island of St. Mary from the mainland of The Gambia!

At 1:50 a.m. on September 13, Gambia time, a fishing boat of about 80 tons approached the east side of the St. Mary's Island Bridge, where there is a trestle that leads to the fish market on the side of the road.

The fishing boat leans up to the pier and can see the lights of the occasional passing car on the road.

"Wait for the third child to detonate that meeting, I hope there are no unlucky eggs on top. ”

It was Zhang Zhenjin who spoke, and his face was painted with black camouflage ink, and even his hands were black.

He was holding a very peculiar, but aesthetically pleasing submachine gun: a sleeve on the outside of the barrel, a long, curved magazine.

It is a Type 85 submachine gun made in China, but in order not to leave any trouble, the 30-round arc magazine is filled with 7.62mm Tokarev pistol cartridges instead of 7.62×25mm Type 64 submachine gun cartridges.

In addition to the black buddy fighters, even a few white commandos in this group are also virtuous with Zhang Zhenjin, except that the whites of the eyes are white, and the skin of the US military tropical jungle combat uniform that is "all over the street" is black, and the setting is darker than many black buddies!

As for the third child he was talking about, he and four other people were driving two motorized inflatable boats underneath the bridge, fastening two bundles of black sorkin explosives in tandem to the first row of two piers.

The timed detonator was set for half an hour later, and the battle to attack the presidential palace should have been going on for 20 minutes.

And there are also remote-controlled detonators on the two major explosives bags, and if necessary, the third can blow up the bridge at any time.

A full hundred kilograms of black gold, 1.5 times the explosive power of TNT, this is not fun!

There was no one in the fish market yet, and the intelligence officer who had pre-reconnaissance made it very clear that this Gambian was super lazy, and no one would come to the fish market until it was close to four o'clock in the morning, not to sell fish, but to go fishing.

There are a few simple small fishing boats nearby, and the fishermen here don't seem to have the habit of fishing at night.

Zhang Zhenjin looked at the luminous watch, and at 1:55, he turned to the dozens of heavily armed soldiers behind him and said, "Action!"

Hop on the trestle and quickly pounce on the junction between the road and the bridge in shifts.

However, it is not on the road for the time being, and it will not be cut off from the outside of the island until the bright spots are completed.

The infantry waited under the cover of bushes on both sides of the road, while the 12 round-shouldered artillerymen were not idle, and quickly deployed their artillery positions on the seaward side of the road, which was separated from the road by a row of bushes.

This is the closest point from the mainland on the island, and even if the bridge is blown off, the Gambian army on the opposite side is still most likely to force support from this section, so that the opposite side of the strait will be very lively, and two mortars will be able to maximize their use.

At two o'clock and less than two minutes, after the explosives were completed, the dinghy was driven to the side of the fishing boat, and the third man who led the team went ashore to meet Zhang Zhenjin, while the other three people and the few people left on the fishing boat worked together to pull the dinghy up.

In the bright spot, Zhang Zhenjin's headphones could hear business coming from the classified channel 5 kilometers away, which was the voice of Dwight Braid, the commander of the main assault group.

But I only heard the business in the headphones, and I waited for half a minute without hearing any gunshots or explosions.

Only then did Zhang Zhenjin order: "One group is 100 meters away to cut off the eastern road, and the second group controls the strait." ”

As he spoke, he turned off the whispering submachine gun in his hand, put it aside, took off the long FAL automatic rifle from his back, and then put the whispering submachine gun on his back.

There were also more than a dozen people in the unit who attacked the presidential palace equipped with this rare equipment, and there was no movement until this time, it is unlikely that the distance was too far to be heard, it is possible that there was no resistance, or the people encountered on the way were killed by whispering submachine guns and whispering pistols first.

And this will be on the sea, six 11-meter rigid inflatable boats have begun patrolling in sections at the mouth of the river and in the strait away from the bridge.

This fast assault boat relies on two 470 horsepower turbines to increase diesel engines and water jet propulsion, not only can run a maximum speed of 45 knots, the range is 200 nautical miles, each boat is a GECAL50 type 12.7 mm three-barreled Gatling, an M134 rapid-fire machine gun plus a Type 87 grenade launcher, such a firepower equipment and performance, in this circle is simply a Tyrannosaurus rex!

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At two o'clock sharp, 180 commandos boarded Gambian territory from a cruise ship dock near the beach and pounced on the target at the sound of an order.

It was a small cargo ship, and when it docked, it didn't attract the attention of the dock staff: they were all sleeping.

But when two hundred commandos quickly boarded the dock, someone found out the problem!

It is 200 meters away from the Presidential Palace in a straight line, and even if you add the street turn, it is only 250 meters.

That Yahya Jammeh is an idiot, and he will shoot a few people paying attention to the area around this during this extraordinary time.

It's a pity that the quality of his and other soldiers is really enough, and most of them sleep in the second half of the night, and the few patrol personnel can't always notice this place.

Knowing that Guan Xingquan, who led the assault, was nearly 100 meters away from the dock, there was a temporary outpost where the two people seemed to find something wrong.

But before the two sentries could say to each other, "Why did the patrol go upside down?" and they couldn't talk again!

This is the capital, and even if you are poor, there are still street lights.

As soon as I turned the corner and saw the outpost, the two sentries sat on the chairs behind the barricade, Guan Xingquan and Li Panfeng each shot at the target 40 meters away to the western sky!

Daniel Angrel, Yacht Chef

The Type 85 submachine gun is a new type of 7.62 mm caliber light submachine gun designed and manufactured by China, which was finalized in 1985. The Type 85 submachine gun is a single automatic weapon of China's special forces (such as: artillery, reconnaissance, signal troops, anti-chemical warfare, armored troops, airborne troops, and marines). The sight is a flaky front sight, and the hole is turned over to the door. Mainly in single shots