readx;

Highway H9 is one of two important highways connecting southern Somalia and eastern Kenya. The other www.biquge.info is the place where Somalia and Kenya are now fighting at the Farah Pass.

Although the H9 highway is a road connecting the two countries, it is only paved with asphalt on the part of the road close to the border, and a long stretch of road in Somalia is still largely hard dirt and gravel.

Since the outbreak of the Soken War, this important transportation route has been left in the cold overnight, and it is no longer in the same hurry as it once was. Occasionally, there was a motor sound on the road, and it was also a patrol car from both sides.

At four o'clock in the morning on the 7th, two hours after the Kenyan political axe army attacked Somalia with the Farah Pass as a breakthrough, there was a traffic on the H9 highway. Unlike civilian vehicles, this traffic is all armored vehicles, and to put it more carefully, this is an army with infantry fighting vehicles as the main body.

In the dark night, there was silence around the road, except for the sound of some insects and small animals coming out to feed at night, except for the ground shaking caused by the movement of dozens of infantry fighting vehicles.

The 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Somali Defence Force, which carried out the raid on Kenya, was the one who galloped on the highway under the stars. Their mission was to raid the Kenyan border post and make a long-distance raid on Garissa, an important military town in eastern Kenya.

The 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, which has 48 Lion King 2 infantry fighting vehicles, is one of the units with more combat experience in the Somali army, especially in the combat experience of modern mechanized troops, which is not far behind the 1st Armored Brigade of the Capital Military Region. The predecessor of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment was the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the Paramingchu Army, which participated in the first border clash at Soken and the 'Lightning Operation' to eliminate the Rahanwen Resistance Army, etc., and has rich combat experience. This time, Li Mo also valued this point, so he ordered the 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment to carry out this arduous task.

"Buzzing ......" In the muffled engine sound of the infantry fighting vehicle, there was a sudden sound of propellers. Several combat vehicles in charge of guarding were not surprised by this, because they knew that they were organizationally rationed helicopter gunships, and the 7th Regiment originally had two Mi-24 gunships for some special missions, and in order to ensure the success of this mission, Li Molian took out the air assault battalion that had been tightly held in his hands, and a total of 8 helicopters would escort the 7th Regiment.

In a valley ten kilometers from the Soken border on Highway H9, the 7th Regiment sent a group of soldiers to the surrounding area to stand on guard, and all of them disguised themselves and waited for orders from their superiors. They're going to have to wait here for a chance, a chance to give Kenya a strike.

On the morning of the 7th, Kenyan reconnaissance planes flew over this area several times to reconnoiter the movements of the Somali military ground, because the Kenyan army is small and it is impossible to launch several fronts at the same time to attack Somalia on all fronts. Instead, the Farah Pass was used as the main breakthrough point for a frontal attack, and the other border areas were fully defended against possible Somali attacks. Aerial reconnaissance is an important means to detect enemy movements in advance.

During the day, the blazing sun soaks its heat as if it were about to evaporate the earth. The commander of the 7th Regiment, Kamodai, was in a temporarily found cave, frowning at the map in his hand. This map details the geographical coordinates of eastern Kenya. In today's world of satellite scouting, it is all too easy to get an accurate map at a small scale.

"Isn't there an order from the headquarters yet?" Camo stood up, glanced at the soldiers who were hiding in the improvised pit to take refuge, and asked the adjutant. It was already 10 a.m., and the troops had been hiding in the valley for six hours, and at night the soldiers slept in their cars and were dead cold, and during the day they were hiding underground and it was extremely hot. Fortunately, the soldiers are all locals, and they have a natural resistance to the heat, and the troops have also carried out many similar trainings, so the soldiers are still in good spirits, but after a long time, the soldiers' energy will definitely be slowly consumed, which is not conducive to the next long-distance attack.

"No, sir." The adjutant shook his head and replied.

"But I found that for two hours, the Kenyan air force never showed up again. It must have been the battle on the other side of the Farah Pass that was too motivating. I think we may have a task soon. The adjutant thought for a moment and said. In the Somali army, there is no staff officer at the regimental level, and the adjutant also plays a staff role to a large extent.

When Camo heard this, he remembered. Since dawn, Kenya's air force flies across the sky almost every half hour to an hour. And since 8 o'clock, it hasn't even appeared once. Camo had always felt that something was wrong, and it was the adjutant's words that made him figure out what the problem was.

Because the mission of the 7th Regiment was to raid Garissa, in order to ensure the secret surname of the troops, Kamo had not been in contact with the outside world, he knew that Kenya might not associate the purpose of the 7th Regiment and the 7th Regiment with some communication signals, but everyone knew that this war came too suddenly, and there were many strange places in it, and Camo had to be a little more careful and a little more careful.

At 10:40 a.m., the news finally came from the headquarters, ordering the Seventh Regiment to set off immediately, with the mission code 'Darkness Chencang'.

A reinforced border battalion in Kenya was caught off guard by a Somali raid, and under the fire of aerial helicopters, some important fortifications of the border battalion were quickly destroyed, and then dozens of infantry fighting vehicles were waiting to run over. After defeating the Kenyan border battalion, the 7th Regiment did not stop and went directly to Garissa.

……

Garissa is not only an important city in eastern Kenya, but also the headquarters of the Eastern Military Region of Kenya. Originally, the Eastern Military Region was the weakest of the three military regions in Kenya, mainly because of the role of the military districts, which mainly managed an armored regiment, two infantry regiments and several border battalions. Since the outbreak of the Soken border conflict in 05, the Garissa Armored Regiment was wiped out by the Paramingchu Army, which caused a national shock in Kenya and made the Kenyan political axe and military determined to strengthen the strength of the Eastern Military Region. The army responsible for the implementation of Operation Own Hope is mainly the newly formed Garissa Armored Regiment, in addition to a total of four other infantry regiments and several mountain battalions of the Central Military Region and the Eastern Military District.

Located in the southern part of the city, near the outskirts, there is a large area of land belonging to the Eastern Military District Command. There, you can often see the entry and exit of the top military officials of the Eastern Military District and even the capital. In particular, in the past few days, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District has been more than twice as heavily guarded, and the entry and exit of military vehicles has let people know that something major has happened. It wasn't until Kenya declared war on Somalia that local citizens and some people who paid attention to it knew why something unusual had happened here some time ago. It turned out that the Kenyan political axe and the military had long been ready to attack Somalia.

Joseph? Kibwana is the Chief of Staff of the Kenyan Armed Forces and the Supreme Commander of Operation Own Hope.

Since the outbreak of the war in the early morning of 7 July, the entire Eastern Military District Command has been filled with an atmosphere of tension and excitement. The faces of the staff and officers who came and went showed a look of joy. This is all due to the fact that the Kenyan army has an initial advantage in the war with Somalia and has invaded Somali territory.

In the minds of the Kenyan military and hawks, Somalia is a thorn in the throat, not vomiting or unhappy. Somalia, which originally needed Kenya's help, was suddenly reunited peacefully, and in a short period of time there has been great development in all aspects, which has brought many adverse effects to Kenya, a neighboring country. If the two countries are separated by 108,000 miles, it's nothing. But watching their neighbor suddenly turn from a torn apart country to a country with strong development potential and strong national defense strength, the Kenyan people have lost that sense of superiority in their hearts, which makes the Kenyan people, who have always faced Somali refugees with a proud attitude, how can they accept it? And the conflict that occurred in 05 made Kenya even more humiliated and became a laughing stock in the world. The fact that the elite troops of a country were wiped out by a local force is more shameful than being slapped in the face.

Whether it was psychological distortion, revenge, or repression for some benefit, or even jealousy, various factors led to Kenya's sudden declaration of war on Somalia. They cannot sit idly by and watch a country worse than themselves ride on their heads. Coupled with the proximity of the two countries, once Somalia does develop, the biggest threat will be Kenya.

The light laughter in the command of the Eastern Military District has been gone since 9 a.m. The hundreds of staff members of the entire headquarters were all cautious, for fear that something would go wrong and cause the boss to be furious.

The Somaliland army has surrendered! An Air Force fighter was shot down! The Kenyan army, which has entered the territory of Somalia, is now facing the ubiquitous sniper killing...... The three pieces of news were smashed more ferociously on the heads of the Kenyan officers who were still laughing and laughing just now.

The surrender of the Somaliland army is a harbinger for Kenya to fight alone. Without Somaliland's grip in the north, Somalia would be free to mobilize more troops on the southern front to fight Kenya. What will happen to the Kenyan army, which is not superior in numbers, to be surrounded by enemies who far outnumber itself in Somalia, which has no popular support? Someone with a modicum of wisdom will be able to figure it out. The news of the appearance of Somali Air Force fighters and the shooting down of one of their own fighters is undoubtedly worse. Originally, it had air supremacy, and the Kenyan army still had the initiative, so it was really impossible to withdraw the army to the country with the support of the air force. But without the support of the Air Force, how can the troops deep into Somalia be withdrawn? Against bombs dropped by enemy aircraft?

The high-level meeting to study countermeasures had been going on for more than an hour, and Kibwana's chief of staff slapped the table several times, shouting 'all stupid pigs' regardless of his demeanor. Don't be in a hurry, there is no clear order to withdraw troops from the capital, how dare he withdraw his troops? Although he is the commander-in-chief, everyone knows that the cabinet meeting is the 'highest decision-making body and the highest command body' in this battle. Now, with every second that passes, the Kenyan army in Somalia is in more danger.

"Report, word came from Border Post 9 that a Somali armored unit was coming......" The door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a panting officer sweated profusely to report a more slotted news.

(To be continued)