Chapter 468: Fakhra's Tricks
Now that Hailong is back, seeing that Hailong has finished handling things very casually, the hearts of the two finally fell back into their stomachs, and they comfortably leaned on Hailong's body and rested.
Hilong had a good premonition, and the day after Helong sent Fakhra back, Somaliland and Puntland troops pressed the border and attacked the fortress of Fakhra fiercely.
After the last time Hailong peacefully liberated the fortress, he found that the fortress was already a little old, so he invited Li Yuesheng back and asked Li Yuesheng to continue to renovate the fortress according to the Maginot Line he had in mind.
300 workers plus 2000 soldiers, under the command of Li Yuesheng, took a month to really turn the fortress into a small Maginot Line.
In particular, the heavy artillery fortifications in the fortress effectively protected the safety of the heavy artillery, and when Yusuf and Tours arrived at the fortress of Fakhra with an army of 110,000, the war entered a stalemate.
The heavy artillery of the two sides bombarded in turn, and if Fakhra was still pessimistic about the war before the return of the helong, now Fakhra is full of confidence in victory.
Without him, Fakhra was afraid that the war would be lost, mainly because of the problem of ammunition, there were hundreds of heavy guns in the fortress, but the ammunition was only enough to saturate the attack for three days.
Three days later, the ammunition of the heavy artillery ran out, and without artillery support, with 20,000 soldiers in his hands to defend the 110,000 on the opposite side, Fakhra knew that it was absolutely impossible.
However, now that Fakhra knew that he would receive aid in seven days, he no longer had to worry about running out of ammunition, and before the war began, Fakhra had advanced all his heavy artillery into the fortress.
From the moment the enemy charged, Fakhra directly ordered a hundred artillery pieces to carry out a saturation attack. Covered all the 3,000 soldiers who rushed up for the first time under artillery fire.
Seeing this, the commander of Somaliland, Tour, and the commander of Puntland, Yusuf, immediately let their artillery attack, and this time they took out all the equipment at the bottom of the box, Tours brought 200 guns, and Yusuf brought 180 guns. Both were determined to fight to the death.
Just when the two thought that their artillery had suppressed the artillery of Fakhra's army, as everyone knows, a helicopter gunship quietly came to the sky above the artillery position of the two, Zhang Fan took out a laser rangefinder and reported the exact coordinates of the enemy's artillery position to Fakhra.
With a wave of Fakhra's hand, the heavy artillery unit immediately turned its guns. Aiming at the enemy's artillery position, 2 minutes later, just as Tours and Yusuf were holding red wine and smiling and celebrating to suppress Fakhra's artillery fire, suddenly, suddenly a violent roar sounded in the lover's ears. Then he saw that his heavy artillery position suddenly burned into a monstrous fire.
Looking at the fire of their own heavy artillery position, the huge heat wave made the two people who were a thousand meters away feel it, and the dumbfounded two knew that their heavy artillery position was finished.
Not only that, but when Fakhra eliminated the enemy's heavy artillery position, Fakhra immediately turned his guns to saturate and attacked the two troops, defeating them one after another, losing 7,000 men on the first day.
Youssef and Tur organized a total of 30 attacks on the first day. Both of them watched Fakhra keep throwing cannonballs outside as if he didn't spend money, and Tur, who gritted his teeth, said, "I don't believe it." He never ran out of shells. ”
Yusuf stood beside Tur and said: "That's right, this time we brought 110,000 troops, I don't believe it, he has more shells than the soldiers we brought, even if Lao Tzu takes human lives to fill it, he will take this fortress." Tours nodded repeatedly.
If it is according to what the two knew about Fakhra before. The two are not wrong in their speculation, and both sides of the war over the years know each other well. Knowing the number of heavy artillery and shells in Fakhra's army, fight like this according to Fakhra. In no more than three days, the ammunition was absolutely gone.
Therefore, when they lost the battle in the first two days, the two were not discouraged, and their soldiers were not discouraged, knowing that if they continued to fight like this, Fakhra's shells would be almost gone.
This time, when they came to attack, Tours and Yusuf made a generous promise to the soldiers, and their promise to the soldiers was that as long as they captured Lilian's base camp, the five cities where Lilian was located, they would be allowed to rob for thirty days at will, and whoever caught Lilian would give Lilian to whomever he wanted.
Everyone was thrilled at the thought of getting Lilian's body, so that although the attack had suffered a major failure in the previous two days, the morale of the 110,000 soldiers was still high.
When the two of them inspected their army and found that their morale had not waned, they were relieved, and occasionally heard from the soldiers what they would say to Lilian if they captured her.
This reassured the two of them and scolded these soldiers for being stupid at the same time, Lilian Is that a woman you can touch, that is Lao Tzu's woman Okay, even if you are captured by one of you, do you think you can survive that night, dare to touch Lao Tzu's woman, Lao Tzu will kill you in minutes.
The two couldn't help but get excited when they thought of Lilian's stubborn appearance and beautiful ketone body, and at the same time, they couldn't help but be wary of each other when they thought that the other party might compete with them.
It's a pity that Hailong doesn't know what the two of them think, if he knew, he would definitely scold the two of them for being stupid, and he didn't see any hope of victory, and he still had the leisure to think about these things, which was really brainless to a certain extent.
However, the dream of the two did not last long, and when the two of them attacked with their troops on the fifth day and launched the 133rd attack, the two of them thought with a depressed face that there was still so much ammunition in Fakhra's fortress.
After Fakhra told him that the ammunition for the artillery could only be used for seven days, Hailong immediately ordered two Mi-26 transport planes to fly to his own munitions ship on his way to Somalia and transport 5,000 shells to the fortress.
On the second day of the battle, the ammunition was delivered to Fakhra's fortress, which had been safe since Fakhra had destroyed the artillery units of Tours and Yusuf.
So. The ammunition was unloaded into the fortress without fear of being attacked by the enemy.
With these 5,000 shells, Fakhra became even more arrogant, and the daily fighting did not allow Yusuf and Tours' troops to come within two kilometers of the fortress.
After five days of fighting, I saw that the intensity of artillery fire inside the fortress still did not abate. The two of them couldn't figure it out, but they still believed that there must not be many shells in the fortress, and the current Fakhra was just a bluff, as long as he held out for a few more days. The opponent's shells will definitely run out.
The soldiers under the two of them thought the same way, and everyone gritted their teeth and looked at the fortress, thinking that after attacking the fortress and entering Lilian's five cities, they must burn and loot it.
In this way, the two men continued to attack for another five days. At least 30 attacks were launched every day, although the two men's troops lost at least 30,000 men in these twelve days.
However, the two of them found a problem, when the war began, and on the seventh day, they found that the intensity of artillery fire in the fortress of Fakhra had become scarce.
This made the two of them instantly surprised, and the two thought to themselves. It must be that Fakhra's shells are finally gone.
The soldiers under the two men also saw this, and although the attack was once again fought, the soldiers erupted in violent cheers.
It was bombarded indiscriminately by the enemy for seven days. The morale of Tours and Yusuf's troops, which was already very low, instantly rose again.
In the past seven days, the morale of Fakhra's army has changed from low fear at first, to high and then low again.
It's not for any other reason. At first, I was scared and depressed because I knew the number of enemies, and I was frightened by them.
The ensuing upsurge was due to the sluggishness of the enemy's offensive. It's like the old woman, she doesn't shoot at herself every time she attacks. It was hit back by heavy artillery, and the soldiers were still very excited at first, but after watching too much, they became annoyed, and they were bored watching the shells beat the enemy to death and alive every day, and their morale gradually dropped.
However, the battle in the past few days has made Fakhra very happy, he has never fought such a comfortable battle, with strong fortresses and plenty of shells, facing a group of enemies with broken copper and iron, watching them rush towards them every day, as long as he waves his hand, countless shells will bombard him, and the enemy's attack will be broken in an instant.
Therefore, during this time, in order to alleviate this boredom and learn from his master, Fakhra played the tea ceremony every day, just as Fakhra made a pot of tea for himself and drank the tea beautifully, Fakhra was startled by the sudden cheers outside, thinking that the enemy had reinforcements coming.
The frightened Fakhra immediately ran to the forward position, picked up the telescope and observed, but he couldn't see any problems, so Fakhra asked Zhang Fan to take the helicopter to reconnoiter from the sky, but after Zhang Fan checked around, he didn't find any problems, and the two of them stood in the fortress of the forward position, and they were a little confused.
At this time, the commander of the rear artillery position called, picked up and said to Fakhra: "I'm sorry general, the artillery position was not shelled according to your instructions just now, please punish him." ”
Fakhra asked curiously, "What's going on?" ”
The commander of the artillery position said with a smile: "Recently, the artillery has been fired too frequently, and the barrels of more than 30 artillery pieces cannot be used. ”
Listening to the words of his subordinates, and then looking at the situation in front of him, Fakhra knew the specific reason, and thought in his heart, it turns out that you thought that my artillery ammunition was not enough to be so arrogant, and I was startled, and I thought that you had any reinforcements or new weapons.
Since you like Lao Tzu so much that there are fewer artillery, then Lao Tzu is as you wish, thinking of this, Fakhra laughed.
Since the seventh day, Fakhra has successfully completed the task assigned to him by Hailong, and Cheng Yulong and the three have arrived at the seaside port with 10,000 people on the morning of the seventh day, and Hailong has already told Fakhra about it.
Since the beginning of the war, Fakhra has been talking to Hailong on the phone at least three times a day to report on the situation of the war, and when Hailong asks Fakhra if he needs immediate support, Fakhra tells Hailong to let Cheng Yulong rest for a while longer, and there is no pressure on his side at all.
Of course, there was no pressure, and after seven days of fighting, the other side began to attack the fortress with artillery, and after that, he did not even approach the side of the fortress.
After learning about the situation on Fakhra's side, Hailong asked Cheng Yulong to rest in place with his troops for five days, and after five days, he was ready to launch a full-scale counteroffensive.
For the next five days, Fakhra reduced the frequency and number of artillery shots every day, and after five days, the ammunition had been reduced to only 10 guns per day, and Tours and Yusuf's troops had repeatedly attacked 100 meters in front of the fortress. (To be continued)