Chapter 2266: Crossfire
"Baron, we've found them. The reconnaissance team spotted the guerrillas, who retreated to the back pass and the high ground on either side. Conan walked over and reported to the red baron sitting in the car.
"Why? instead of fleeing, they set up a posture at the pass to ambush us?" the Red Baron couldn't help but sneer. "Leave it up to them to inform the 4th and 6th squads and storm their positions head-on. In addition, let the second and seventh teams follow up, and make a detour to the flanks to bypass the pass. Then rush directly to the high ground on the flank and control which side of the commanding heights. The other troops advanced slowly, to see how many means they still had. β
"Yes, Baron. Conan nodded.
I don't know how many people the Secret Society armed brought this time, after getting the order of the Red Baron. Suddenly, the troops in front swarmed forward, and armed men like two swarms of swarms rushed straight to the front of the valley pass.
"Prepare for battle!" Lin Rui jumped up, "Defensive firepower is onβblast ready!"
The strength of the Order's armed forces is not just relative to the average African armed force. Fighting firepower, maybe Lin Rui and others are still at a disadvantage. However, the terrain of the pass is special, and the front section is blocked, and the rear cannot keep up in time. This makes it impossible for them to charge at all. As soon as the Order's armed men came into range, all the rebels opened fire, and the barrage was like a wall of flames, facing the beige forces ready to charge.
The Order's militants invariably made evasive moves, and their charge seemed chaotic but orderly. They are indeed good hands, and they know how to use the nearest terrain to cover each other, and the squad provides fire cover for each other.
The Red Baron's face tensed, staring intently at the combat troops in the distance, muttering to himself, "Something is not right. β
"What?" Conan didn't understand him
"I mean, it's not surprising that these rebels are holding the pass, and that's what they're trying to lure us in. They must be trying to use this vantage point to restrain us, but where did they get so many people?" the Red Baron put down his binoculars and pointed to the enemy troops fighting fiercely in the distance, "You look at the movements of these soldiers, it is absolutely impossible for them to be lay guerrillas, at least soldiers with special tactical training!"
He is not surprised by the number of anti-government partisans. To put it bluntly, these guerrillas are civilians, as long as their hands and feet are sound, they will be issued a gun, at most a few broken pickup trucks that they don't know how many times they have changed, and they will drive for two days, and some of them will still be flying on the land of Africa without even hearing of what a driver's license is.
Compared to the regular army, this militia unit is outrageously rudimentary, but more importantly, the cost of such a unit is just as low as the scalp is numbing!
AK47 is not a rare thing, armed pickups are small second-hand cars that no one wants in Europe and the United States, and the cost of a guerrilla unit is only the cost of weapons, ammunition and some basic expenses, even if it is a dozen guerrilla units combined, it is not as high as a well-established regular army company.
But no matter how simple and cheap it is, it will not affect the performance of combat effectiveness too much...... Ants bite elephants to death, tigers are afraid of wolves, one or two are useless, pull out hundreds at a time, and no one can stand it - more importantly, these African government troops are not necessarily much stronger than them.
The blame is on the anti-government guerrillas on the other side, which advance and retreat on a well-founded basis, and execute tactics at a glance. That's a little weird. When did the rebels have soldiers of such high quality.
Conan was stunned for a moment, and then showed an inexplicable expression: "It's a little strange, could it be those mercenaries? β
Flames erupted in the distance, the explosion of a grenade after hitting its target. This shows that the equipment of this guerrilla force is not too bad, and it is not the same as the militia that goes into battle with rusty weapons.
"Our squad has broken through the enemy's first layer of firepower, but in the hollow ahead, it has been stubbornly blocked by the opponent!" reported the Order's armed squad via radio. Bring Conan's mind back to the battle.
Several rockets rushed towards the hidden place of the Order's forces, and when they exploded, they quickly formed a cloud of impermeable fog.
"Be careful, they just used smoke bombs. The purpose of this is to hide their form and confuse our vision. The leader of the Order's armed squad shouted, "Pay attention to concealment, maintain the firing power, and keep shooting." β
Because of the obstruction of view, the Secret Society's assault could only be temporarily halted and relied on cover to shoot. Although the other side hid their tracks, some of the Secret Order commandos were still in a state of charge, and a few unlucky ones rushed into the buffer zone between the smoke and the rear troops, and were immediately beaten into a sieve by the fire from the opposite side.
Occasionally, grenades landed on the ground nearby, blasting the rocky bare ground into potholes. A fragment of the Secret Society's armed men struck him, cutting off several of his fingers. He threw down his weapon on the spot and fell behind the bunker in agony and convulsed. When his companion turned over him, he found that his lower abdomen was also a blur of flesh and blood.
No one could have imagined that when the elite squad of the Secret Society encountered the anti-government guerrillas this time, they would also suffer a lot of battle losses. More and more members of the anti-government guerrillas broke through the fog and clouds to design downward, and the firepower of the Secret Society's armed forces was suppressed, and they gradually began to be overstretched. A wounded anti-government guerrilla roared and rushed straight at the Order's commandos, with no intention of dodging, and almost rushed to the side of the Order's armed men, only to be killed at close range by a burst of fire from the Order's armed forces. But as he fell to the ground, he shouted "Long live the free Anmore" and pulled off a ring of grenades around him.
The face of the leader of the secret society changed, but he was really afraid of something, these damn guerrillas actually used suicide tactics! What was even more unexpected was that the guerrillas, who had always been regarded as a rabble, actually had such thugs who were not afraid of death!
Conan frowned and said, "Long live the free Anmore, this is the slogan of the former Anmore Armed Forces. I understood, they were supposed to be soldiers of the former Anmore Armed Forces, members of the Guards of Le Anson. No wonder that the fighting style of these people was more like that of professional soldiers. And it is quite possible that those mercenaries are directing them to fight. β
"I've heard of these people, they are the best soldiers in this rebel army, and they are also the guards of the leader of Tahrir Anmore, Leanson. The Red Baron narrowed his eyes and said, "So, we've caught them." It was a bit of a surprise, and I thought they should have evacuated first. β
(End of chapter)