Chapter 110: Mission
The Falklands are not an island, but an archipelago consisting of numerous islands.
The whole Falklands are roughly shaped like a fluttering butterfly.
The capital of the Falklands is Port Stanley, which is located on Soledad Island, and Xiao Mubai's location is in Puerto San Carlos on Soledad Island.
In this war, as long as the British army occupied Port Stanley and the British flag was raised in the capital, it meant that the Falklands were occupied by the British.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Afghan army defending Port Stanley has the largest number of defenders and the largest number of troops.
Indeed, a reinforced brigade of about 8,000 men, with its artillery, air defense, armor and engineering units, was deployed within the Port Stanley defensive circle.
At this time, there were more than 10,000 troops in the Falklands, and the defensive deployment of troops can be seen.
This matter has a lot to do with Xiao Mubai.
The port of San Carlos is in the western part of the Falklands, seventy or eighty kilometers from Port Stanley.
If the Falklands are a butterfly, then Puerto San Carlos is the head of the butterfly, and Port Stanley is the rightmost tip of the right wing.
The port of San Carlos, the port of Darwin, and the port of Stanley, the three triangular directions formed horns with each other, were the key targets of the British army.
San Carlos is the farthest from Stanley, and that's the geographical situation.
There were no other troops here, only the fifty men under Xiao Mubai to defend the port.
This place is the first to be attacked, and Xiao Mubai must defend well, but the means are extremely limited.
Xiao Mubai stood in the harbor, the sea breeze blowing, staring at the sea not far away.
It was in this place, not far from the sea, that at two o'clock in the morning a few hours later, the British landing fleet would arrive on time.
1,000 Marines from the USS Athletic, 900 Marines from the USS Invincible, and 2,000 British troops aboard the USS Canberra.
With a total strength of more than 4,000 people, this is a terrifying force.
Moreover, after the second day, the British army will be more numerous, and the ground force will reach 9,000 people. The total is the 3rd Brigade of the Marine Corps, the 5th Brigade, the Paratrooper Battalion and the Air Service Regiment.
So many landing troops will land from Puerto San Carlos and then capture Port Stanley all the way.
Xiao Mubai was frustrated, what a pity that the British army was about to break through from his defensive point.
Such a few people are not enough to stuff people's teeth.
What's more, the British Air Service Regiment would raid the stronghold and occupy the high ground near Port Stanley.
In other words, Xiao Mubai will become a key target of the British army next.
Who made Xiao Mubai is now the port of San Carlos, the commander of the fifty patrols here.
There is a radio connection to the headquarters, which is the reinforced brigade of the Afghan army stationed in Port Stanley.
At two o'clock in the morning, the British army will land on time.
Xiao Mubai thought about whether to report to the command.
However, it is too early to let the rumors blow out and startle the snakes.
Once that happens, Xiao Mubai's prophetic foresight in the future generations, as well as the information provided by the system, will be useless.
Xiao Mubai's biggest reliance will also become a thing of the past.
So, not yet.
The official language of Argentina is Spanish, and Carlos Brown is Hispanic.
Xiao Mubai is also speaking Spanish for the first time.
From consciousness to Carlos's brain, Xiao Mubai controlled Carlos's body, and now after a period of time, he has completely adapted to the same person.
At that time, Xiao Mubai was still in the Paris hotel, and he didn't go out that day, and stayed in the hotel room all day, preparing for this mission.
At night, Xiao Mubai secretly used a strategy to ask his mother to call his father out, and only then did he wait until the time traveled and began to travel to the mission world.
At that time, Carlos was patrolling with his men, wearing an American M1 olive green steel helmet on his head and a FAL rifle in his hand.
After that, Carlos was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his eyes became blank and dull, and his steps stopped moving, as if he had become a puppet.
In an instant, Carlos's pupils regained their luster, slowly developing a focal length, and his whole body was free of its previous stiffness, and he resumed walking.
When the stagnant footsteps started, no one realized that their respected prefect Carlos had changed his soul and become a different person.
Yes, Xiao Mubai came through.
Traveling over and receiving a part of the memory, naturally, Xiao Mubai can speak Spanish and communicate with his subordinates.
At the same time, Carlos' experience came flooding back like the sea.
Carlos is a 26-year-old lieutenant in the Afghan army and has been serving in the Afghan army for three years.
Plus before, studying at the Argentine National Military Academy, it has been seven years.
In seven years, it can be said that he is a fairly experienced professional soldier.
As soon as Xiao Mubai came over, he followed the queue and slowly walked to patrol, and the cold mechanical sound of the system sounded in his ears.
Xiao Mubai knew about the system task at this time, but in an instant, Xiao Mubai was dumbfounded.
The task of the system requires that the Falklands be resisted for three days, and the reduction of the number of troops under his command cannot exceed one-third.
And then, as the system intelligence came in, there was also a part of Carlos's memory.
These things all tell Xiao Mubai how difficult the task is and how difficult it will be.
Prior to this, the Argentine army came from the mainland, began to land on the Falklands in April, and then spent a few days to clear the British forces on the island and establish the Argentine Governor's Palace.
By the time, Carlos was already on duty, having been on the Falklands for almost a month, encountering little resistance.
At this moment, it was only a few dozen minutes since Xiao Mubai came over.
Standing in the port, Xiao Mubai looked at the endless sea, the slightly fishy sea breeze whistling, mixed with the cold of the southern hemisphere winter.
Even though he was wearing a woolen winter hat on his head, Xiao Mubai still shrunk his neck, shivering from the cold.
It's just too cold in here.
When Xiao Mubai was in Paris, it was still summer in August, and the climate was hot and the temperature was high.
And now, the Falklands in the southern hemisphere have entered a cold winter.
Although the cold winter is nothing, if you think of the latitude of the Falklands, it is equivalent to the Great Khing'an Mountains in northeast China.
You can imagine how cold it is now.
When he came back from the scorching summer just now, he suddenly entered the cold winter, Xiao Mubai felt very bitter, this is not human at all.
But no matter how hard it is, you still have to endure it.
The system asked Xiao Mubai to hold on for three days, and for three days he had to fight the British army, and he could not surrender or retreat directly.
As for three days later, there is no requirement for Xiao Mubai to surrender or die.
This is a test for Xiao Mubai, and so much information is provided for this, but Xiao Mubai still said that it was very difficult.
Looking at the sea with binoculars, Xiao Mubai tried to find some clues, whether it was the British fleet.
But the sea is calm, nothing can be seen, only the eye is endless.
The childishness of man in front of nature is shown at a glance.
If Xiao Mubai hadn't come, maybe Carlos would have been confident in this operation.
But now, it's really hard to stay alive if you want to continue to have low resistance.
In Carlos's mind, the war was a success, victory was in sight or even certain, and they had succeeded in expelling the British.
No one realizes that the crisis is coming soon, and that it will not be a crisis but a defeat.
A few hours later, the huge British fleet began to land.
First of all, it was from the British Air Service Regiment to target a 50-man patrol of the Albanian Army in Port San Carlos.
Prior to this, Xiao Mubai had already prepared wording, reporting the situation to the command without revealing the facts as much as possible, as well as an objective description of the defense of the port of San Carlos.
To put it simply, there was a shortage of troops, and Xiao Mubai asked for reinforcements.
As for whether the command headquarters will send reinforcements, Xiao Mubai has no way of knowing.
(To be continued)